[BC] Highway Promotion

[Barry Mishkind]

At 08:41 AM 2/16/2007, Rich Wood wrote
>I've noticed that many stations that had prominent signs, either 
>neon on the tower or wooden, have removed them. I have a 50Kw site a 
>few miles up the road and it looks like a juicy target. The 
>satellite dishes are out in the open and there's no gate or fence 
>around the site. At night the only lighting is on the towers. The 
>area is sparsely populated. No one would notice until the 
>transmitter was disconnected and on a flatbed truck miles away with 
>the equipment securely covered.

         This is what I truly see as an emerging issue that more
         and more stations should get behind ... and properly
         respond with something other than budget cuts - stations
         MUST start to consider site security and either implement
         cameras (motion detect/IR/ both) or live persons on site,
         to protect the huge investment in transmitters, coax and
         copper, both in terms of raw cost and in terms of replacement
         cost in time and money.

         It stuns me to see how poorly protected so many of
         these sites are these days.




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Barry Mishkind     -       Tucson, AZ    -   520-296-3797