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Friedrich Clemens Gerke Tower is a 230 metre tall telecommunication tower of

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in Germany. Friedrich Clemens Gerke Tower, which is named after

Friedrich Clemens Gerke Friedrich Clemens Gerke (22 January 1801 – 21 May 1888) was a German writer, journalist, musician and pioneer of telegraphy who revised the Morse code in 1848. It is Gerke's version of the original (American) Morse code now known as the Interna ...

, was completed in 1991 and is not accessible for tourists. In spite of its size, it is only used as receiving point for

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, as a

radio relay Radio stations that cannot communicate directly due to distance, terrain or other difficulties sometimes use an intermediate radio relay station to relay the signals. A radio relay receives weak signals and retransmits them, often in a different di ...

station and as a mobile phone transmitter, but not for broadcasting. The tower was designed by architects Gerhard Kreisel, Dipl. Ing. and Günter H. Müller Dipl. Ing., Kiel´.

External links

* * http://www.seefunknetz.de/gerke.htm * http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b2089

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