Armstrong Tower

Armstrong Tower

Basic data

Place:

Alpine , Bergen County

State:

New Jersey

Country:

United States

Coordinates: 40 ° 57 '39.4 " N , 73 ° 55' 21.5" W.

Use:

Telecommunications tower

Accessibility:

Transmission tower not open to the public

Tower data

Construction time :

1938

Client :	Edwin Howard Armstrong
Building material :	steel

Operating time:

since 1938

Total height :

130 m

Data on the transmission system

Waveband :

FM transmitter

Send type:

Directional radio

Further data

Historical data on the transmission system
(until the 2000s):
Use:	Broadcasting station
Radio :	VHF broadcasting

Position map

Armstrong Tower

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

After the destruction of the World Trade Center in 2001, a number of New York television stations switched to the Armstrong Tower as the location for their transmission systems. The good accessibility of the facility, from which one can overlook large parts of New York, was advantageous for this use. However, the location soon proved unsuitable for permanent use, as the skyscrapers that had been added since 1938 dampened the signals too much in several New York districts. Today the tower is mainly used for radio relay systems .