The Highest Antenna

The Highest Antenna - Antenna KVLY

    The antenna KVLY, with 628.8 m high, is the highest existing antenna and the secondtallest structure in the world, behind the building Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which has 828m.            

  The KVLY-TV mast is a television transmitting tower located in North Dakota, USA, used by Channel 11 TV station KVLY-Fargo.

    The tower is located about 5 km west of Blanchard, North Dakota (Lat 47 ° 20'32 "N, Long 97 ° 17'20" W), which is approximately halfway between Fargo and Grand Forks.

    It was built in 1963 and was the tallest tower in the world until in 1974 built the TV towerin Warsaw, Poland, with 646m. In August 1991, the tower collapsed and the WarsawKVLY-TV once again became the structure supported by cables world's tallest.

    The tower was built by Hamilton Directors and Kline Iron and Steel, took thirty days to complete. The top of the tower is reached by an elevator or a ladder of service. 

   The total weight of the steel tower is 392 131 quilos.O total length of cable holding is12,565 meters. The cables used in the construction of the elevator tower reaches 7870 meters.

   Currently the owner of the building is the Meyer Broadcasting Company (now North Dakota Television, LLC) of Bismarck.

  The tower transmits at 316 kW for television station KVLY (channel 11, an NBC affiliate)which is based in Fargo. The tower provides a broadcast area of 30,000 square miles(78,000 km ²).

   Its height above sea level is 926 m. Some time after its completion, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a limit of 628m, based on the height of the tower, for future construction, therefore no taller structure can legally be built in the United States.