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Tallest guyed mast ever built
646.4 m
2,120.7 ft
- Record holder
- Warsaw Radio Mast
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How the record evolved
The last record set in each decade, up to the current record (highlighted).
| Year | Record | Holder |
|---|---|---|
| current | 646.4 m | Warsaw Radio Mast |
| 371.25 m | Forestport Tower | |
| 335 m | Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster | |
| 287 m | Masts of Ruiselede transmitter, Ruiselede, Belgium | |
| 250 m | Central mast of Eilvese transmitter, Eilvese, Germany |
Put them in order
Sort these records from the oldest to the most recent.
- 646.4 mWarsaw Radio Mast
- 287 mMasts of Ruiselede transmitter, Ruiselede, Belgium
- 371.25 mForestport Tower
- 250 mCentral mast of Eilvese transmitter, Eilvese, Germany
What to remember
On 30 July 1974, official broadcasts began from Konstantynów, near Gąbin, in central Poland. They went out from a 646.4 m guyed mast, the Warsaw Radio Mast, which was the world's tallest structure for 17 years from 1974.
The mast itself was the antenna, a radiator insulated against the ground. It carried Polskie Radio's Program I, unofficially known as "Jedynka", with a power of around 2 MW on 227 kHz. The signal could be picked up across Europe and North Africa, and its reach extended to parts of Canada and the United States and even to Antarctica.
The guyed mast history keeps a few milestones: the central mast of the Eilvese transmitter in Germany at 250 m in 1913, the masts of the Ruiselede transmitter in Belgium at 287 m in 1923, the Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster at 335 m in 1939 and the Forestport Tower at 371.25 m in 1950. From the 1913 mast to the Warsaw record, the ratio is 2.59.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “History of the world's tallest structures” (revision used 1376079411). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photo: R. Kreyser, Photo licensed under Public domain (Wikimedia Commons).
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