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Diversified Communications Tower is a guyed mast for TV transmission at Floyd Dale, South Carolina, USA at 34°22'3.0" N and 79°19'48.0" W. Diversified Communications Tower was built in 1981 and is 609.6 meters high. It belongs to the tallest structures in the world. A mast is a pole which holds a sail of a boat, see mast (sailing). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...

List of masts Warsaw radio mast Masts are among the tallest man-made structures. ...


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Chapter 13 - Communications-Electronics, 1962-1970 (7499 words)
Behind these combat communication elements there should be a single organization to operate the Defense Communications System within and from the theater of operations and to provide at the same time a flexible, mobile, surge capability in support of the combat forces.
Communications security devices, along with such practices as changing radio frequencies and call words, must be extensively employed in the future.
Communications is a team effort, as I said before, and without the trained bread-and-butter signalmen, without the combat and fixed-type communications skills, the over-all job cannot be done.
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Two shorter towers may be a better option the one taller one, for example, or a higher tower might not be useful if the signal is blocked by terrain nor if all the listeners are in a concentrated area and a higher tower cannot pay for itself.
The Petronius Compliant Tower, an oil platform) at 2100 ft or 640 m (to the top of the spire) is the tallest non-guyed structure in existence but it is mostly underwater (taller than all but the Warsaw radio mast).
The CN Tower at 553.33 meters (1,815 feet 4.5 inches) is the tallest non-guyed structure on land, though it's shorter than many of the guyed towers.
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