[BC] Cell Tech, killed by police at tower site

[Robert Bowe]

The worst that I've run into has been a site that was regularly used for 
target practice.  The roof mounted cooler was more akin to swiss cheese 
and the exhaust fan was equipped with a custom 1/4" steel cover to 
protect the fan.  The building itself had maybe 50 holes that went 
through the cinder blocks and the transmitter had a few dents in it.

Right now I have a squatter living at a retired AM site, found the 
encampment yesterday.  It is set up in a thicket of trees.  The person 
living there is probably harmless but I have to clear some trees from 
around the guy cables near the encampment.

Other than that, just mountain lion tracks.


-- 

Robert Bowe, CSRE
Director of Engineering
MBC Grand Broadcasting
Grand Junction, CO



Paul B. Walker, Jr. wrote:
> i think the worst thing that ever happened to me while workig at the
> radio stations i've been at..
>
> ..One night while at WQMA, with the door locked, a guy came up and
> knocked in the glass door asking for matches.
>
> and then while at WTIR, i caught someone peeing by the side of the
> road when i walked out one night...
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 7/31/06, Ron Cole <rondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>> At and AM site I used to maintain. I had to repair an antenna monitor 
>> that
>> received a 9mm round, through a meter.  The Old Gates Transmitter was 
>> really
>> bullet proof, it had two marks where the bullets hit but did not 
>> penetrate.
>> The Main TX was behind an old RCA that I suspect would make a good 
>> bullet
>> stop.
>>
>> A few years ago.   At some cell sites in Chicago that I visited they had
>> directions posted on the door to leave the site before sundown.  If 
>> you got
>> cough at the site after dark you were to lock the door and spend the 
>> night
>> and not to open the door for any reason as police would not respond 
>> to calls
>> at the site after dark.
>>
>> Ron
>>