Armstrong Tower

Armstrong Tower (also: Alpine Tower ) is an approximately 130 meter high lattice tower in Alpine in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It was built during the first experiments with FM Radio by Edwin Howard Armstrong in 1938 and used.

After the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001 gave way to several New York television stations from the Armstrong Tower as the site of their transmission systems. Advantageous for this use was the good accessibility of the plant, from which one large parts of New York may overlook. However, the site for permanent use quickly proved now unsuitable because the added since 1938 Skyscraper signals in several New York neighborhoods to very dampened. Today, the tower is used mainly for radio relay systems.

40.960833333333 - 73.9225Koordinaten: 40 ° 57 ' 39 " N, 73 ° 55' 21 " W

  • Tower in the United States
  • Tower in North America
  • Building in New Jersey
  • Built in the 1930s
  • History of radio
  • Bergen County
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