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The Wavre radio transmitter is a facility for Fm, Dab+ and TV broadcasting near
The Wavre radio transmitter is a facility for Fm, Dab+ and TV broadcasting near Wavre
Wavre (; ; ) is a City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the Provinces of Belgium, province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium.
Wavre is in the Dijle, Dyle valley. Most inhabitants sp ...
in Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...
. Formerly the mediumwave transmissions used a grounded 250-metre-high guyed mast
A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not have the ...
. Furthermore, there was a backup mast for medium wave transmissions, which was 90 metres high. For shortwave broadcasting there were several directional antennas and a curtain antenna.
For the FM/TV/DAB transmission a free-standing lattice tower with a height of 232 metres is used.
This tower whose top is guyed at four horizontal crossbars similar to Grodno TV Tower replaces the mast used for FM/TV transmissions which fell during a storm on 13 October 1983.
See also
*List of masts
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity t ...
* List of towers
The tallest structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa skyscraper at . Listed are guyed masts (such as telecommunication masts), self-supporting towers (such as the CN Tower), skyscrapers (such as the Willis Tower), oil platforms, electricity ...
* List of famous transmission sites
In the following there are lists of sites of notable radio transmitters. During the early history of radio many countries had only a few high power radio stations, operated either by the government or large corporations, which broadcast to the po ...
External links
* * http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tvignaud/galerie/etranger/be-wavre-fm.htm * http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tvignaud/galerie/etranger/be-wavre-am.htm * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b39672 * http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b39673 * https://theantennasite.com/archive/belgium-wavre-chausseedebruxelles-pictures.html {{coord, 50.7428, 4.5841, type:landmark, display=title Lattice towers Radio masts and towers in Europe Towers in Belgium Buildings and structures in Walloon Brabant Wavre Building and structure collapses in 1983