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POSSIBLY STOLEN FM BROADCAST EQUIPMENT -- YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

June 16, 2009 -- Ventura County, CA

A search warrant recently executed at the residence of Kevin Bondy (the accused radio jammer of The Oaks Shopping Center in Thousand Oaks, CA, see CGC Communicator newsletter #906) has turned up a cornucopia of radio equipment including perhaps 200 pieces of industrial land-mobile gear (repeaters, mobiles, portables), a few pieces of ham gear and four pieces of FM broadcast equipment.  The Ventura County Sheriff's Department is requesting your assistance in finding the owners if indeed the equipment was stolen.

Although not much can be done until the gear is inventoried and a comprehensive list with serial numbers is prepared, pictures of the FM broadcast equipment are included below.  Note that the large item is a Broadcast Electronics model FM 1C 1,000 watt transmitter.  There is also a Bext FM 20W Transposer (probably 950 MHz in, 88-108 MHz out), a BE FX50 50-watt exciter and what appears to be an Inovonics Model 705 baseband device.

(Click on Photos for Larger View)

If you believe that some or all of this equipment may have been stolen from your station, please contact Detective Jon Smith at (805) 494-8216 or e-mail him at jon.smith (at) ventura.org (you must "reassemble" this disguised e-mail address by replacing the "(at)" notation with the @ symbol -- Jon's address is disguised to thwart address skimmers).

A copy of the FCC's Notice of Apparent Liability to Kevin Bondy for The Oaks Shopping Center incident is available at <http://www.fcc.gov/eb/FieldNotices/2003/DOC-290813A1.html>.


Thanks for helping.

Posted by Steve Blodgett
Earthsignals.com