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Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:39:54 -0500
From: John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] Masts vs Towers yet again
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The 808-foot antenna for radio station WSM fits both the tower and mast
descriptions we are using.
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSM_(AM)>
John, read Marcs remarks as well, the WSM antenne is clearly a mast standing on
one point, for mechanical reasons and yes it has a foundation on the ground as
well.
The Gebrandytower is a tower at first (106m), gets a mast (hollow) on top, lift
inside to a higher socalled reportersroom and even higher to almost 376 m to a
digital antenne. But the structure is still a tower. We dont call a
motorvehicle with a bicycle on top a bicycle, well ?
>> Op 16 apr. 2016, om 08:27 heeft Martin Koppenhoefer
>> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> but in these cases there would typically be a room in the tower, i.e. the
>> pole is there to support something on top, or is big and hollow and
>> accessible in the inside.
>>
>> this is not a tower:
>> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Borough_Hill_mast.jpg
>> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Borough_Hill_mast.jpg>
>>
>> this is not a mast:
>> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_della_televisione_di_Stoccarda#/media/File:Stuttgarter_Fernsehturm6.jpg
>> <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_della_televisione_di_Stoccarda#/media/File:Stuttgarter_Fernsehturm6.jpg>
>
> I agree with this vision, but in the last case, which we also see very
> often in my country (The Netherlands), one still could say that we see a
> mast on top of a tower, like this one:
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gerbrandy_tower.jpg
> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gerbrandy_tower.jpg>
>
> Which creates even more confusion.
>
> A tower is built on the spot where you see it. But a mast is very often
> constructed elsewhere and simply erected on the spot where you see it,
> although I’m not sure if we can use this in our decision on how to tag.
>
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