Høiåsmasten is a TV tower used for DAB-,

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

-, FM- and TV-transmission near

Halden Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a List of cities in Norway, town and a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Østfold Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, R ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. Høiåsmasten, built in 1973, is one of the tallest

partially guyed tower A guyed mast is a tall thin vertical structure that depends on guy lines (diagonal tensioned cables attached to the ground or a base) for stability. The mast itself has the compressive strength to support its own weight, but does not have the ...

s in the world and with a height of the second tallest tower of Norway. It consists, like the Gerbrandy Tower and

Vännäs TV Tower Vännäs TV Tower () is a Swedish concrete television tower that has a mast on top. It is used for transmitting FM-/TV-broadcasting. The Vännäs TV Tower resembles the Gerbrandy Tower in IJsselstein, the Netherlands. They both are a concrete to ...

, of a concrete tower as basement on which the guyed antenna mast is mounted. However this mast is, in contrast to that of Gerbrandy Tower, a lattice structure and not a tube structure.

External links

* http://rune-feldt.se/allman/mast/

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