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6 unusual facts about Radio masts and towers


Baba Mountain, Macedonia

On Pelister mountain, there is a TV transmitter using an additionally guyed lattice steel mast as antenna tower.

Magnet, Texas

Magnet is identified by road signs on SH 60 and by a tall broadcasting tower.

Masthead

Radio masts and towers, tall structures designed to support antennas (also known as aerials in the UK)

Penmynydd

A radio communication transmission mast was installed in 2002 a few yards north of the village at the top of the hill.

Scott Fybush

He is a noted expert on radio transmission towers, and visits radio and television facilities in the United States and beyond to photograph them for his Tower Site of the Week feature and his Tower Site Calendar.

Woodberry, Baltimore

Woodberry also houses the facilities for four of Baltimore's commercial television stations, and because of its altitude, it also is the site of two large broadcasting masts.


Vysílač Krašov

Vysílač Krašov (Krašov transmitter, Zapadni-Cechy transmitter) is a facility for TV-broadcasting in near Bezvěrov in Carlsbad Region, in Czech Republic with 347,5 metre tall guyed mast (former mast was 305 m tall).

Zendmast Ruiselede

The Zendmasts of Ruiselede were eight 287 metre high guyed radio masts at Ruiselede, Belgium, built in 1923 for carrying an aerial for VLF transmission (nominal frequency 16.2kHz).


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