Partially guyed tower

A partially guyed belfry is a belfry anatomy which consists of a free-standing basement, in a lot of cases of accurate or of filigree animate with a guyed mast on the top. The ballast basements of the guyed mast can be on the top of the belfry or on the ground.

Use

Partially guyed building can be acclimated e.g. if a actual top belfry for FM and TV manual is required, which should aswell backpack antennas for directional radio casework in a abundant lower height. In this cases the antennas for directional radio casework are army on the top of the free-standing allotment of the tower, while the guyed mast on its top backpack the FM and TV antennas. They can be aswell acclimated in adjustment to advancement baby abiding building (like watertowers) with a continued antenna mast for FM and TV broadcasting. However their use is rare, and done alone in some European countries.

Partially guyed tower with anchor basements on the top of free-standing tower

Guyed masts on skyscrapers or thicker building are generally guyed on the roof of the free-standing basement structure. In this case there is no above effective aberration of the guyed mast to a guyed mast on apparent arena and the architecture of the free-standing basement belfry does not alter abundant from a belfry of the aforementioned acme after the mast on the top. The guyed mast of such constructions is usually beneath alpine than the free-standing basement tower.

Partially guyed tower with anchor basements on the ground

Much added rarely and absorbing beneath effective data are partially guyed architecture at which at atomic one basement of the guy anchors is on the ground. At such structures, the guyed mast on the top is in adverse to guyed architecture with ballast basements on the top of free-standing belfry abundant taller (in a lot of cases taller than the basement tower) and it have to be advised at its architecture and maintenance, that the basement of the guyed mast is anchored abundant added animated than that of the ballast basements.

Not advised as partially guyed architecture are guyed mast radiators, which angle on the top of a braid building, because a braid architecture is abundant abate than the mast radiator on it. Such constructions the Mühlacker radio transmitter and the Ismaning radio transmitter.

Realized towers

Tower Year Country Town Pinnacle acme Remarks

Gerbrandy Belfry 1961 Netherlands IJsselstein 366.8 m

Vännäs TV Belfry 1988 Sweden Vännäs 323 m

Höiåsmasten 1980 Norway Halden 320 m

Zendstation Smilde 1959 Netherlands Smilde 303.5 m

Cutler Naval Station 1960 United States Cutler, Maine ? m

Lyngdal transmitter 1954 Norway Lyngdal ? m 1

Geitfjellet transmitter 1962 Norway Grong ? m 2

Greipstad transmitter 1958 Norway Greipstad ? m 3

Steinfjellet transmitter ? Norway Bremanger ? m

Lakssvelafjellet transmitter ? Norway Bjerkreim ? m

Brunnby transmitter ? Sweden Uppsala 225 m

TV Belfry Brest - Roc Trédudon 1974 France Roc Trédudon 220 m lattice belfry as basement

Telecommunication Belfry Aarhus 1956 Denmark Arhus 216.1 m

Nordhue transmitter ? Norway Elverum, Hedmark 195 m lattice belfry as basement

Kekesteto TV Belfry ? Hungary Kekesteto 178 m

Gelukskroon transmitter, capital belfry ? South Africa Pretoria ? 4

Brudaremossen masts 1980 Sweden Gothenburg 172 m

Sendeturm Dobratsch 1971 Austria Dobratsch Mountain 165 m

Shchyolkovo Radio Mast ? Russia Shchyolkovo 150 m Mast radiator on baby filigree tower5,6

Mont Agel Broadcasting Mast 1946 France Fontbonne 145 m originally mast radiator with filigree belfry as basement, today acclimated for FM-/TV-broadcasting 7

Waldenburg TV Belfry ? Germany Waldenburg 145 m antenna mast will be dismantled in 2008

Sendeturm Jauerling 1958 Austria Jauerling 141 m lattice belfry as basement

Hoherodskopf old telecommunication belfry ? Germany Hoherodskopf ? lattice belfry as basement, replaced by Hoherodskopf telecommunication tower, 8

Pietricica transmitter ? Romania Piatra Neamţ ? 9

Wachberg transmitter ? Austria Weitra 130 m

Mount Corhanwarrabul, Channel 7 Belfry 1956 Australia Mount Dandenong, Victoria 131 m Lattice belfry as basement

Torfhaus Telekom Transmitter ? Germany Torfhaus 130 m was adapted in a authentic guyed mast

Tokaj TV Belfry 1960 Hungary Tokaj 130 m

Ylojärvi TV Belfry ? Finland Ylojärvi 124 m

Transmitter Geiersberg ? Germany Geiersberg 124 m lattice belfry as basement

Criuleni TV Belfry ? Moldova Criuleni 123 m 10

Tighina TV Belfry ? Moldova Tighina ? m 11

Transmission Belfry Lindenfels ? Germany Lindenfels 122 m lattice belfry as basement

Transmitter Boppard ? Germany Boppard-Fleckertshöhe 121 m lattice belfry as basement

Makarki Directional Radio Belfry ? Poland Makarki 120 m lattice belfry as basement

Uzd TV Belfry ? Hungary Uzd 120 m 12

Transmission Belfry Hesselberg ? Germany Hesselberg 119 m lattice belfry as basement

Hegyhátsál TV Belfry ? Hungary Hegyhátsál 117 m

Reichenhain Transmission Belfry ? Germany Chemnitz 99 m lattice belfry as basement, was afore June 2007 free-standing

Mount Ślęża transmitter 1958 Poland Mount Ślęża 98 m dismantled, afterwards taller additionally guyed belfry was congenital in 1972

Still Pond Signal Belfry ? United States Still Pond, Maryland 83.8 m 13

Towers on roof of Heckeshorn Shelter 1948 Germany Berlin ? m 2 towers, were acclimated from 1948 to 1967 for a radio broadcast hotlink to Lower Saxony. Dismantled in 1967

Coburg-Eckardtsberg Radio Belfry ? Germany Coburg 68 m prefabricated accurate belfry as basement

Kvasovka Radio Belfry ? Russia Kvasovka ? m Pinnacle guyed on arena and on 4 crossbars army on the lower allotment of the tower14

Alfândega da Fé Transmitter ? Portugal Alfândega da Fé ? 15 16

Monte do Faro transmitter ? Portugal Valença ? 17, 18

Valença Rádio Comercial transmitter ? Portugal Valença ? 19, 20

Shabla transmitter ? Bulgaria Shabla ? m 21

Old TV-Tower Inselberg 1939 Germany Inselsberg Mountain 43.31 m aerial mast removed

Windisch Bleiberg Transmission Belfry ? Austria Windisch Bleiberg ?

Campobasso Transmitter 1959 Italy Campobasso ? mast radiator on castle

Chełmiec Radio Mast ? Poland Chełmiec ? Guyed mast on alcazar ruin

Wrights Hill Radio Belfry ? New Zealand Wellington ? 22