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a mast in Datong MW Transmitting Station, Yunzhou District, Datong, Shanxi, China: 2001: Guyed steel lattice mast 151.5 High winds and corrosion WKFT, North Carolina, US March 14, 2002: Guyed steel tower 533.1 Airplane crash Pilot killed and the tower was destroyed Nanxian Radio & TV Transmitting Station, Nanxian, Yiyang, Hunan, China: April 3 ...
The Warsaw Radio Mast (centre) from a distance (as pictured in 1989) Warsaw Radio Mast compared with some other tall structures The Warsaw Radio Mast (Polish: Maszt radiowy w Warszawie) was a radio mast located near Gąbin, Poland, and was the world's tallest structure at 2,120 ft (646.30 m) from 1974 until its collapse on 8 August 1991. [1]
The first, a 665 foot (203 m) half-wave mast was installed at radio station WABC's 50 kW transmitter at Wayne, New Jersey in 1931. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the 1930s it was found that the diamond shape of the Blaw-Knox tower had an unfavorable current distribution which increased the power emitted at high angles, causing multipath fading in the ...
Orlunda radio transmitter central mast collapse: Orlunda, Sweden: Guyed mast: 1970: ... Station Square collapse (Save-On-Foods collapse) Burnaby, British Columbia ...
List of catastrophic collapses of radio masts and towers. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; English. ... List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and ...
Its construction was necessitated by the collapse of the Warsaw radio mast on 8 August 1991 and the resistance of the local population to its reconstruction. The height above sea level of the station is 67 metres (220 ft). [1] The station was built in 1998–99 on a former military area near Solec Kujawski.
The Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter had a transmission power of 4 megawatts, which is more than the most powerful broadcasting stations. The Iwo Jima LORAN-C transmitter had a 411.5 meter (1350 ft) tall guyed mast, which was built in 1963. A guy wire insulator eyebolt failed sending the insulator crashing into the tower, knocking it out of plumb.
It was a 411.48 m (1350 ft) tall guyed mast, built in 1965. This mast was the tallest structure in Canada until the construction of the CN Tower in Toronto, and remained the second-tallest structure until its collapse on February 2, 1993. The CKX TV-Craig broadcast tower at Hayfield, Manitoba equalled this tower in height when it was erected in ...