[TowerTalk] Words.

[Lux, Jim]

On 5/30/23 5:51 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> Curious, indeed.  Take a look at the FCC regs on *towers*.  I tried 
> yesterday to put an end to this debate by adding a note to the 
> Wikipedia article, explaining that US and European usages are opposite 
> one another.

And then, we have other usages of the word tower - The Campanile at UC 
Berkeley is a tower.

And the FCC calls them "Antenna Structures"  in 47 CFR 19

Although they do use the term tower a lot (radiation patterns in Part 
73, Digital television transmission towers in Part 10, In Part 87 they 
use the word to refer to airport control towers.




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> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 5/29/2023 10:32 PM, JVarney wrote:
>> Ed N1UR: "Europeans use the words tower and mast pretty inter--
>> changeably in my experience.  It was clearly what we Americans
>> would call a guyed tower."
>>
>> Seems the American tower building code committee didn't get
>> the memo. TIA-222 uses these terms
>>
>> "Guyed mast: a latticed or pole structure with supporting guys."
>> "Self-Supporting Latticed Tower"
>> "Antenna Mounting Pipe" instead of mast.
>>
>> Curious why they adopted the guyed mast terminology when
>> it's doubtful the professionals on the committee from the
>> tower industry actually use that phrase in their
>> day-to-day work?
>>
>> 73 Jim K6OK
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