OMEGA transmission mast Trelew
The OMEGA Trelew transmission tower was a transmission tower 40 km north of Trelew , Argentina . He was the highest ever in South America built building . It was a 366 meter high, guyed steel lattice mast , insulated from earth , which was used to emit transmission signals for the OMEGA navigation method in the long-wave range .
The transmission mast to the west of the Argentine national road 3 acted as "Station F" of the OMEGA system and was built from 1973 to 1976. After the OMEGA navigation system was shut down on September 30, 1997, it was demolished by demolition on June 23, 1998. At that time it was the tallest structure in the world that was demolished by demolition.
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Coordinates: 43 ° 3 ′ 13 ″ S , 65 ° 11 ′ 27 ″ W