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Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:05 pm to BayouBlitz
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So, I guess you're selling scrap?
I prefer the term "gently disassembled".
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:23 pm to LegendInMyMind
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I guess my first question would be, was it not transmitting regularly? If it was transmitting regularly, wouldn't the first clue have been that it suddenly and mysteriously stopped transmitting?
It is an AM station in rural Alabama. I'm sure one of the 5-6 people who listen to the station have been furiously thumbing thru their phone book, land line receiver in hand, trying to notify the authority's.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:40 pm to keakar
quote:I’m pretty sure the tower was located outside.
as others have said, this was an inside job all the way
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:40 pm to the4thgen
From my understanding of AM radio, the whole tower acts like a transmitter. In some installations you also have to seed the ground with metal to help ground the signal.
Also, the antenna/tower is usually hot meaning that without protection, you can burn or electrocute yourself touching an AM tower.
Other RF signals for broadcasting like FM and TV are much shorter wavelengths and have smaller antennas but need height to overcome the curvature of the earth. For UHF the signal is pretty much transmitted from a tube that is parallel to the tower.
While FM and VHF TV have banks of smaller antennas to dial in a pattern.
Also, the antenna/tower is usually hot meaning that without protection, you can burn or electrocute yourself touching an AM tower.
Other RF signals for broadcasting like FM and TV are much shorter wavelengths and have smaller antennas but need height to overcome the curvature of the earth. For UHF the signal is pretty much transmitted from a tube that is parallel to the tower.
While FM and VHF TV have banks of smaller antennas to dial in a pattern.
This post was edited on 2/6/24 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:43 pm to the4thgen
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I cannot understand how a 200ft tower can disappear and no one noticed until someone went to cut the grass on site.
Can't imagine how that phone call went - Hey you know that tower I'm supposed to weed eat around? Well it ain't here.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 5:45 pm to keakar
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This post was edited on 3/17/24 at 8:35 am
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:13 pm to Tarps99
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need height to overcome the curvature of the earth.
What is this nonsense?
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:20 pm to the4thgen
Will be used by a terror cell in the near future to communicate to different areas of the country. Laugh now
Posted on 2/6/24 at 6:23 pm to Triggerr
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Will be used by a terror cell in the near future to communicate to different areas of the country. Laugh now
In Walker county it is more likely to be used to build a roll cage on a buggy or a smoker.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:05 pm to jbgleason
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The guy was broadcasting all kinds of anti-government conspiracy theorist stuff
Sounds like a pirate radio station. Likely on 6955 khz USB.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:15 pm to the4thgen
Meth head, can accomplish “great feats” for meth.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:15 pm to the4thgen
Dude pulling some insurance scam... he know where that tower at
Posted on 2/6/24 at 7:20 pm to jbgleason
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I was once involved in a case where the FCC served a criminal search warrant on a dude in ultra rural Pennsyvania for operating an unlicensed AM radio station. It was some seriously petty BS. The guy was broadcasting all kinds of anti-government conspiracy theorist stuff but it was just the biggest case of government overreach I had ever seen. I am not even sure anyone listened to the guy besides the crazy lady that made the complaint on him. Funny part about it was that the FCC rolling into his farm with a bunch of guns quite literally proved all the stuff he was broadcasting. Now that I wrote this down I realize it makes me look like OWEO telling an unrelated story. Sorry. Just seeing rural and AM station triggered that memory.
Nope. Interesting. Relevant. Enjoyable. Pretty succinct.
Don’t besmirch yourself.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 9:14 pm to East Coast Band
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I know a guy who is into ham radio that has a 100 foot antenna in his backyard.
Next week I bet he has a 200 foot antenna. Or a 300 foot one if he's really good.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:48 pm to Tarps99
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From my understanding of AM radio, the whole tower acts like a transmitter.
Yes. You would be a complete dumbass to touch the tower while it was broadcasting. Sounds like they took all the equipment too, so it was probably not transmitting when they toppled it.
If you come across a high power AM tower with loose or corroded ground straps, you can literally hear the station where the ac jumps the gaps.
Posted on 2/6/24 at 11:59 pm to td1
Back in the days of unregulated AM mega stations coming out of Mexico, you could hear the broadcasts in barb wire fences and dental work in South Texas.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 12:35 am to the4thgen
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a nondirectional AM radio station, went on Facebook and announced that someone had made off with his 200-foot-tall guyed tower
A 200 foot guyed omnidirectional AM radio tower (they aren't directional) is not that tall as far as towers of that frequency band go, and likely made of 20 or 40 foot aluminum tower sections bolted together. Much lighter than steel.
Copper wire needed to connect the transmitter is minimal, the guy wires likely galvanized steel.
Disassembly without destruction requires skill. I would not want to be anywhere near it if they simply cut the guy wires and let it fall.
Posted on 2/7/24 at 5:30 am to the4thgen
Never underestimate the abilities of Walker County meth heads.
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