The proper way is to put a pin in the coax to short it out.

During the craze, people used to steal CBs from cars.

When the craze was over, a guy put his linear in the front seat of his car. He
parked at a shopping mall and left the window open so someone would take the
unwanted linear.

When he came back the car was gone, but the linear was laying in the middle of
the parking space.

Bill, K5BY