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AM Radio Tower Vandalism

Steve Green NEPA

Steve Green NEPA

I haven't seen the topic raised here. Apparently, five hours apart, two KRKO towers in Everett Washington were downed by a stolen earth-mover, and a hypochondriacal terrorist organization called the ELF claimed credit.

And one of WAEB Allentown's five towers was dropped after guy wires had been cut. It seems no one had claimed blame yet and the matter is still with Whitehall PA police.

I may be getting a bit Ian Fleming=ish here in my old age, but it seems to me that five hours and three time zones is a bit too coincidental to be a copycat matter. Any thoughts?

I've read some of the nuttier responses to the stories. 'Patty Hearst Comes Out Of Retirement At Age 56 ; Signs With The ELF as a Free Agent' ....... 'During Photo Op, Rush Topples Sponsor Station's Tower By Leaning On It' ...... 'Donald DeFreeze's Tombstone Overturned By Bulldozer' ..... 'Defense Attorneys at ELF Trial Maintain That Destruction of Non--Rated Radio Station Towers was 'A Victimless Crime' ......

Thoughts? Opinions? Directional radio stations targets? Those with tower lights? Guyed sticks?
 
I saw the KRKO story on the morning news! They are now at low power, can only hear it at less than half power, and NO IBOC!! :) :) :) :)

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
I saw the KRKO story on the morning news! They are now at low power, can only hear it at less than half power, and NO IBOC!! :) :) :) :)

-crainbebo
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Maybe that's the explanation. Anti-IBOC terrorists :)
 
Apparently, officials think the one in Washington was "eco-terrorism".

Those extremist environmentalists are a bunch of nutbags to say the least.
 
They probably were annoyed that the iboc was ruining reception of adjacent signals.
Oh well, live by the sword, die by the sword.
 
The West Coast incident has been linked to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an eco-terrorist group. Supposedly they have issues with both the use of land for tower sites, AND the supposedly harmful effects of AM radio signal radiation. (if that were true I suspect the entire city of Cincinnati, Ohio would have keeled over and died sometime in the late 1930's when WLW was running 500kW non-directional) This group is best known for burning down new resort or housing developments when they intrude upon what the group defines as "pristine" habitat.

Since WAEB runs political talk, there is some speculation that someone out there took issue with something that was said by Michael Savage or Jim Quinn....but who knows? I remember when I was a kid a tower was taken down at the local urban/disco FM station. The police released a public statement saying that this was the work of "well-trained saboteurs, who obviously had engineering skills and preparation and knew exactly what they were doing".

A few days later they arrested three teenage members of Rebels for Rock Revolution with a pair of bolt cutters.

So you never know.
 
Maybe next year Fybush could publish a calender of downed towers, including previous ones knocked down by aircraft or bad weather such as KFI or the 1240 one in San Diego.
 
ROTFFLMFAO, Jon Bruce! 'Downed towers' -- LOL!

Perhaps Fybush could include the stricken Saratoga Springs New York station (1240?) where people nearby had noticed that the guy wires supporting the old gal had been SAGGING for some time before the stick did a Galloping Gertie ....

And/or the WLIX tower, Islip Long Island, circa 1969. Kids cut a guy wire. The tower didn't fall like a felled oak. It came down in sections. My brother-in-law could better describe the stress/vector physics. One section killed one of the kids. Sorta like out of the movie 'Twister', when Cary Elwes and his chauffeur liked the farm so much that they bought it.....
 
JON BRUCE said:
Maybe next year Fybush could publish a calender of downed towers, including previous ones knocked down by aircraft or bad weather such as KFI or the 1240 one in San Diego.
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Yes, and maybe it could be sponsored by Viagra :D
 
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