Schöckl Transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-transmission on the Schöckl Mountain in

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, Austria. It uses as an

antenna tower Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television. There are two main types: guyed and self-supporting structures. They are among the tallest human-m ...

, a 100-metre-high

lattice tower A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical latticework, framework tower. This construction is widely used in transmission towers carrying high-voltage electric power lines, in radio masts and towers (a self-radiating tower or as a ...

, which was built in 1956. The tower of Schöckl transmitter was originally completely free-standing, but it was in recent times additionally guyed.

References

http://www.wabweb.net/radio/frames/radioaf5.htm

External links

Pictures of transmitting site Schöckl
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