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A guyed mast is cheaper to build than a self-supporting tower of equal height. A guyed mast needs additional land to accommodate the guys, and is thus best suited to rural locations where land is relatively cheap. An unguyed tower will fit into a much smaller plot. A steel lattice tower is cheaper to build than a concrete tower of equal height.
American Towers Tower Riverview-33569 Riverview, Florida Guyed Mast 477.6 m KBSI TV Mast: Cape Girardeau, Missouri: Guyed Mast 477.1 m Media General Tower Saint Ansgar Saint Ansgar, Iowa: Guyed Mast 477 m Red River Broadcast Tower Salem Salem, South Dakota: Guyed Mast 476.4 m Hearst-Argyle Television Tower Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Guyed Mast 475.6 m
Cellular lattice tower A cell tower in Peristeri, Greece. A cell site, cell phone tower, cell base tower, or cellular base station is a cellular-enabled mobile device site where antennas and electronic communications equipment are placed (typically on a radio mast, tower, or other raised structure) to create a cell, or adjacent cells, in a cellular network.
The proposed cell tower would be 160 feet high, 57 feet higher than the water tank. ... Variances are also required because the tower exceeds the 45-foot height limit for structures in the zone.
The height of the tower was 1,748 ft (533 m). WCOM-TV used the tall tower and a directional antenna to try to serve the Columbus market. The station went dark in 1991 and the tower was sold to a religious broadcaster in South Carolina to be used as two separate 800 ft (240 m) towers.
2. Central Park Tower, New York. Height: 1,550 feet Also known as Nordstrom Tower, this is the tallest residential building in the world and the tallest building outside of Asia by roof height alone.
Towers are most often built to use their height for various purposes, and can stand alone or as part of a larger structure. Some common purposes are for telecommunications, and as a viewing platform. The Tokyo Skytree, completed in 2012, is 634 m (2,080 ft), making it the tallest tower in the world. Spinnaker Tower
The tower consists of two parts: a lattice tower of 1,950 feet (590 m); [6] topped by the transmitting antenna array of 53 feet (16 m). The total height of both is 1,987 feet (606 m). The antenna weighs 9,000 pounds (4.1 t), the lattice tower weighs 855,500 pounds (388.0 t), giving a total weight of 864,500 pounds (392.1 t).