Tower of the Americas
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Tower of the Americas
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | San Antonio , Bexar County | |||
| State: | Texas | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| Altitude : | 199 m | |||
| Coordinates: 29 ° 25 ′ 8.5 ″ N , 98 ° 29 ′ 0.9 ″ W. | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunication tower , radio transmitter , restaurant , observation tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower open to the public | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1966-1968 | |||
| Operating time: | since 1968 | |||
| Last renovation (tower) : | 2004-2006 | |||
| Total height : | 228.6 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Last modification (transmitter) : | 2007 | |||
| Waveband : | FM transmitter | |||
| Radio : | VHF broadcasting | |||
| Send type: | Directional radio | |||
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The Tower of the Americas is a 228.6 meter high observation and communications tower in San Antonio , Texas .
The tower in the city center was built on the occasion of the world exhibition HemisFair '68 and completed in 1968. It was the tallest observation tower in the United States until 1996 and has been trumped by the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas , Nevada since then .
The tower is accessible to the public via lifts . The 184.4 meter high viewing platform can be reached in 42 seconds. The tower's pulpit sits on a turntable and houses a restaurant. The pulpit rotates once on its own axis in the course of 60 minutes.
The tower has also served as a transmission tower since the 1970s. The VHF stations broadcast their signals on a steel mast then erected on the top of the tower. In 2018, eight radio stations used the tower as a main broadcast location or as a location for small repeaters (low power FM repeaters).
