[TowerTalk] Words.

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

What's the old joke - the US and UK are divided by a common language?  I 
could go with Antenna Structures as capturing both/all.

73, Pete N4ZR

On 5/30/2023 9:23 AM, Lux, Jim wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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