KVLY-TV mast
The KVLY - TV mast ( originally called KTHI - TV mast ) is a television transmitting tower in North Dakota (USA). With a height of 629 meters, it is currently the third tallest building in the world after the 828 -meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Tokyo Sky Tree ( 634 meters) in Tokyo and the highest in the United States and to the Americas. The actual transmitting antenna has a length of 34 meters and is located at the top over the grid-shaped support structure, which has a height of 595 meters.
Located five miles west of Blanchard (North Dakota), he was, upon its completion on 13 August 1963, the tallest building in the world. He was from the year 1974 stands at 18 meters from the long-wave transmitter transmitter mast Konstantynów in Konstantynów, which collapsed on 8 August 1991, making the KVLY mast again became the tallest building in the world and this remained until January 31, 2008, to the site Burj Khalifa overtook him.
The mast was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline made of steel. Its construction period was 33 days, with construction costs of half a million U.S. dollars. The height of the spire is 629 meters.
Owner of the mast is the Meyer Broadcasting Company of Bismarck, with an output of 316 kW on channel 11 ( 199.25 MHz, and what a wavelength of about 1.5 m corresponds to ) an analog TV program in the NTSC television standard for the television station KVLY, an affiliate station of NBC, sends, which has its headquarters in Fargo. The supply area of the KVLY mast is around 77,700 km ², larger than the area of Bavaria.
The call sign of the TV station for which this mast was erected, was originally KTHI, said "HI" was referring to the height of the mast. The top of the mast with the Sendedipolen is accessible via a service elevator or a ladder.
The future and the eventual collapse of the feedlot after a fictitious disappearance of humanity is shown in episode 8 of the second season of the docu-fiction series Life After People ( " chaos in the sky ", USA 2010).
The second highest mast of the Earth is the only one meter smaller KXJB - TV mast, just a few kilometers away.
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View from the foot of the mast to the top
View from below
Tethers with the mast in the background
The ground station
The anchorages of the support cables
Size comparison with KVLY mast