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Created on: 04/11/00
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Radio Warsaw Transmission Tower

Completed in: 1974
Status: collapsed
Location: Konstantynów, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Geographic
Coordinates: 		 52°22'14" North
019°48'23" East
Warsaw Television Tower
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Structural Type:
Cable-stayed tower
Function / usage:
Long wave transmitter

Technical information
DescriptionValue
Construction materials used
tower  steel
stay cables  steel
Dimensions
  height 646.38 m
Quantities used in construction
  structural steel 550 t

Chronology
18 July 1974
Completed.
22 July 1974
In operation
8 August 1991, ca. 19:10
Collapses during renovation works.

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External LinkWikipedia: Sendemast Radio Warschau German
External LinkWikipedia: Warsaw radio mast English

Relevant Literature
* Rundfunk-Sendeanlagen, vth-Verlag, Baden-Baden (Germany) , ISBN 3881806458; pp. 74-77.

 
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