Hegyhátsál TV Tower is a 117-meter tall

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near

Hegyhátsál Hegyhátsál is a village in Vas county, Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the ea ...

Hungary Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...

at 46°57'21''N and 16°39'08''E. Hegyhátsál TV tower is a tower is one of the few partially guyed towers as it consists of a concrete tower as basement with a guyed mast on its top. Hegyhátsál TV Tower is not only used for FM- and TV-broadcasting, it carries also instruments for measuring the concentration of

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. Therefore, it carries corresponding devices 10, 48, 82 and 115 metres above ground. At the uppermost measuring sites also instruments for measuring

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and air

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are mounted on a 4.4 metre long arm.

Transmitted programmes

FM

TV

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20061126102033/http://www.aerocarb.cnrs-gif.fr/sites/elu/hegyhatsal/hegyhatsal.html * https://nimbus.elte.hu/hhs/ * https://www.dxpg.at/senderfotos/ungarn/vasvar.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Hegyhatsal TV Tower Radio masts and towers in Hungary Towers in Hungary Buildings and structures in Vas County