Frankly, I don't think there's any need - the author of the Wikipedia
article clearly was European (probably British) and apparently their
usage and ours are different. I have added a note to the Wikipedia
article to clarify this. I don't know whether these appear immediately,
but I'm seeing it now.
This is what I added:"(NB: the terminology used in the United States is
opposite that used in Europe - in the US, structures called masts are
typically relatively small, un-guyed structures, while larger
structures, guyed or un-guyed, are referred to as towers. The US Federal
Communications Commission, for example, uses "tower" to describe such
structures as radio and television transmission towers, whether guyed or
un-guyed."
73, Pete N4ZR
On 5/29/2023 1:56 PM, Facility 406 wrote:
"I guess someone should take the entire archive of Towertalk and swap
the word mast with tower and tower with mast in every post. Sorting
out who meant what over the last decade or two should keep us busy for
another 20 years."
I did that once with a webpage, just a simple word-replace taking a
few seconds, changing "vintage" (a year that a wine is made) with "old".
Humanity reacted as one would expect.
Kurt
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