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

Schöckl Schöckl (also spelt ''Schöckel'') is a mountain in the Austrian state of Styria. It is about 14 km north of the city center of Graz, the capital of Styria. There is a cableway to the summit from the nearby health resort of St Radegund.' ...

Mountain in

Steiermark Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

, 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-made ...

, a 100-metre-high

lattice tower A lattice tower or truss tower is a freestanding vertical 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 support for 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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