Well said.
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Jim
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> On May 29, 2023, at 3:23 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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