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https://www.al.com/news/2024/02/someone-stole-a-jasper-radio..., big discussion 9 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302045

Radio station owner says transmitting tower was stolen, as if it had disappeared overnight.

Related story about things not adding up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39397568

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This is one of those stories that every single police procedural show on TV/streaming will have some version of in the next production cycle.

Law & Order: Spectrum Management and Telecommunications Division

This would just be people sitting in front of screens screaming techno-babble for the entire episode...so basically 24?

Dual wielding keyboards too.

As someone with an amateur extra license and a VEC, this smells like some sort of insurance fraud.

Theres just no conceivable way in my mind your commercial antenna vanishes and you dont know...nobody checked the swr? The eas output? A litany of regular federal inspections never produced an issue?

Unlikely, the story clearly says "Elmore did not have insurance on that property".

GoFundMe scam rather than insurance fraud.

You tell your insurance company a bogus story, you get in trouble.

You put out a bogus sob story and a link to GoFundMe, you maybe don't.

Ah I see your point now.

Currently studying for my HAM license here....I know darn well antenna equipment is not cheap as I'm into software defined radio as a hobby and while I can't transmit I can receive....I assure you that you have to be grossly incopitent to not miss an antenna that size and antennas are not cheap.

“Grossly incopitent”

Muprhy’s Law strikes again!

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