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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Words.
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 10:18:22 -0400
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What's the old joke - the US and UK are divided by a common language?  I could go with Antenna Structures as capturing both/all.

73, Pete N4ZR

On 5/30/2023 9:23 AM, Lux, Jim wrote:
On 5/30/23 5:51 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
Curious, indeed.  Take a look at the FCC regs on *towers*.  I tried yesterday to put an end to this debate by adding a note to the Wikipedia article, explaining that US and European usages are opposite one another.

And then, we have other usages of the word tower - The Campanile at UC Berkeley is a tower.

And the FCC calls them "Antenna Structures"  in 47 CFR 19

Although they do use the term tower a lot (radiation patterns in Part 73, Digital television transmission towers in Part 10, In Part 87 they use the word to refer to airport control towers.





73, Pete N4ZR

On 5/29/2023 10:32 PM, JVarney wrote:
Ed N1UR: "Europeans use the words tower and mast pretty inter--
changeably in my experience.  It was clearly what we Americans
would call a guyed tower."

Seems the American tower building code committee didn't get
the memo. TIA-222 uses these terms

"Guyed mast: a latticed or pole structure with supporting guys."
"Self-Supporting Latticed Tower"
"Antenna Mounting Pipe" instead of mast.

Curious why they adopted the guyed mast terminology when
it's doubtful the professionals on the committee from the
tower industry actually use that phrase in their
day-to-day work?

73 Jim K6OK
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