Radio masts and towers
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Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting str
KVLY-TV mast
A radio mast base showing how virtually all lateral support is provided by the guy-wires
The Tokyo Skytree was, in 2012, the tallest freestanding tower in the world
Multiwire broadcast T-antenna of early AM station WBZ, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1925.
KVLY-TV mast
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The KVLY-TV mast is a television-transmitting mast in Blanchard, North Dakota. It is used by Fargo station KVLY-TV and KXJB-LD's Argusville/Valley City/Mayville translator K28MA-D, along with KNGF. Co
Radio masts and towers
…has a line-of-sight path to them. Until 8 August 1991, the Warsaw radio mast was the world's tallest supported structure on land; its collapse left the KVLY / KTHI-TV mast as the tallest. There are over 50 radio structures in the United States that are 600 m (1968.5 ft) or taller. The steel lattice is the most widespread…
KVLY tower from a distance of about one mile (1.6 km)
A guy-wire anchor
Detail of the tower, showing its network of guy-wires