200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
So from reading the article, it seems that it wasn’t just the tower taken, but also the transmitter. Which makes a little more sense; you don’t want to be the thing that detaches an AM broadcast antenna from its feed line while it’s on the air. They often transmit with kilowatts or megawatts of power, and often the tower structure itself IS the antenna, or half of it.
I’d be curious if there was a political motivation. This happening in Alabama, was someone scheduled to say some things that aren’t extremely racist or something?
The article states that the missing property has a value of ~$200,000, but I imagine that’s in the form of an intact radio transmitter and tower; as scrap metal it’s probably worth a small fraction of that, and what scrapyard is going to accept a broadcast tower without any questions?
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What? Why?