enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Guyed mast - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyed_mast

   Guyed masts are frequently used for radio masts and towers. The mast can either support radio antennas (for VHF, UHF and other microwave bands) mounted at its top, or the entire structure itself can function as a mast radiator antenna (for VLF, LF, MF). In the latter case, the mast needs to be insulated from the ground. Guyed radio masts are ...

3. Radio masts and towers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_masts_and_towers

   The antenna used for broadcasting through the 1920s was the T-antenna, which consisted of two masts with loading wires on top, strung between them, requiring twice the construction costs and land area of a single mast. [2] (pp 77–78) In 1924 Stuart Ballantine published two historic papers which led to the development of the single mast antenna.

4. Umbrella antenna - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella_antenna

   The antenna must be very large at the VLF frequencies used; the supporting masts are 250–300 metres (820–980 ft) high, and the topload is about 1,900 metres (6,200 ft) in diameter. The trideco antenna was developed for high power naval transmitters, which transmit on frequencies between 15 and 30 kHz at powers up to 2 megawatts, to ...

5. Category:Radio masts and towers - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Radio_masts_and...

   Radio masts and towers support antennas (also known as aerials) for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.

6. List of tallest structures in the United States by height

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures...

   Guyed Mast 610.5 m: KGLK-FM Lake Jackson Tower: Lake Jackson, Texas: Guyed Mast 610 m: Petronius Platform: Gulf of Mexico: Oil Platform approx. 75 meters visible above water surface 609.6 m: KCAU TV Tower: Sioux City, Iowa: Guyed Mast 609.6 m KATV Tower: Redfield, Arkansas: Guyed Mast collapsed on January 11, 2008 609.6 m WECT TV6 Tower: Colly ...

7. Guy-wire - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-wire

   A sailboat's mast is supported by shrouds (side-to-side) and stays (fore-and-aft) – nautical equivalents of guy wires.. A guy-wire, guy-line, guy-rope, down guy, or stay, also called simply a guy, is a tensioned cable designed to add stability to a freestanding structure.