TV dinners cooked CHEEP.

that'd buy them a lot of meth

Those towers usually have pretty well designed and connected alarm systems, because if you're a communications provider, it's important to know when your equipment fails...as it would when the tower is toppled and loaded onto a flatbed.

Meth-inspired fail! But then, I guess if they were smarter, they wouldn't be on meth, right?

Can I have the Jib?

I got it

BCB, DWB, JAL, SAM say whut?

Steel wrong? Cheep duh is whut?

Dewaved-out.

;)

ka1axy: Those towers usually have pretty well designed and connected alarm systems, because if you're a communications provider, it's important to know when your equipment fails...as it would when the tower is toppled and loaded onto a flatbed.

Meth-inspired fail! But then, I guess if they were smarter, they wouldn't be on meth, right?

I was thinking that before I even read the article.

They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.



They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Maybe they need it to travel back to the year 3000...

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.

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They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Kind of like the Sydney Opera House.

Wanted for questioning



Ruled out as a suspect, as she would have stolen the tower's ability to transmit microwaves.

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics. They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Some sites claim a transmission rate of 8Gbps, seems pretty decent.

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.



They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Sure in many areas they are used for the backhaul for the cellular network, it's often a lot cheaper to do a bunch of point to point microwave links with one fiber run then it is to run a high speed connection to each tower.

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.

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They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

These guys would like a word with you:

Hijacking a microwave tower, however, is no big deal.

robodog: Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.



They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Sure in many areas they are used for the backhaul for the cellular network, it's often a lot cheaper to do a bunch of point to point microwave links with one fiber run then it is to run a high speed connection to each tower.


Many rural customers can also get speedy internet access via microwave.

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.

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They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Yep, pretty much. If you look closely, usually the waveguides are gone. Those hardened, extra heavy duty towers were part of the AT+T "Long-Lines" service, which was partially Gov't funded for their private [Autovon] phone system. These facilities were hardened, redundant, and terminals tended to be located in second and third tier cities to reduce the chances of instant vaporization.

Intererstingly, this traffic never went satellite since the estabilished terrestrial network was adequate, but once fiber came out - I don't know if fiber is cheaper or more expensive, but it's certainly got a MUCH higher bandwidth, and with all the data we send these days, the microwaves were redundant.

I think one of these sites would make an awsome amateur radio station - power, towers, etc. all pre-constructed, etc.

As others have noted, there's still some microwave links in use, it's just not nearly what it used to be.

But think about it...what if the guy was using the antenna to download pirated music? Why, you'd have to steal THOUSANDS of antennas to equal the economic harm inflicted by a single pirated song!

These men should be lauded as saints!

Metal thieves do more damage than people who go to jail for 30 years.

rev. dave: Metal thieves do more damage than people who go to jail for 30 years.

Yeah. I would like to see a sentence multiplier based on how wasteful your crime was. You steal a $100 bill, no waste, no multiplier. You steal $100 of metal that will cost $10,000 to replace and the waste factor is 100, you get a hefty increase in your sentence.

Scumbag Police use junkyard cost estimates for real material, use weight-in-diamonds price estimates for drugs.

According to a county task force report released in 2007, most of the stolen property is redeemed at recycling facilities for quick cash, usually to buy drugs.

You... needed a county task force to figure out this mystery??

Nobody has ever made a stack of microwaves, much less a tower.

Loren: rev. dave: Metal thieves do more damage than people who go to jail for 30 years.

Yeah. I would like to see a sentence multiplier based on how wasteful your crime was. You steal a $100 bill, no waste, no multiplier. You steal $100 of metal that will cost $10,000 to replace and the waste factor is 100, you get a hefty increase in your sentence.


Prosecutors and civil lawyers already consider the severity of the damage inflicted, not merely what the criminal hocked it for. Did you seriously think they didn't?

"Uh, oh, sirens -- the police are closing in! Hey kid! Yeah, you on the tricycle, you want these gold watches for a penny? ...There, all yours!"
"Freeze! You are under arrest!"
"Too late, suckers! I just sold the loot to this kid for a penny. You can only charge me with theft and sale of a penny's worth of stolen goods!
"Wha- Hey kid, is that true?"
"Yessir."
"God DAMN it, we were so close this time!"


What else could you mean? That a thief should be punished extra for failing to get a price from his fence that matches the damage done?

"...and three counts of Grand shiatty Price Negotiation. Book 'em, Danno."

Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.

They were in use more recently than that. Around 2000 I drove from Vancouver to visit a friend in Yellowknife, and there were lots of microwave towers spaced out along the northern highways. I think they needed to have so many towers due to high signal attenuation in the mosquito clouds filling the air between each antenna.

robodog: Rapmaster2000: They still use microwave towers? I thought they were cold war relics.



They usually look pretty derelict whenever I see them these days.

Sure in many areas they are used for the backhaul for the cellular network, it's often a lot cheaper to do a bunch of point to point microwave links with one fiber run then it is to run a high speed connection to each tower.

This.

A lot of semi-rural and rural areas are using PDH or SDH microwave links for the physical between BTS and BSC (abis). Some even use micro for the A interface, between BSC and MSC.

/the more you know

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