WITI transmission tower
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WITI transmission tower
WITI TV Tower
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| Basic data | ||||
| Place: | Shorewood | |||
| State: | Wisconsin | |||
| Country: | United States | |||
| Altitude : | 197 m | |||
| Coordinates: 43 ° 5 '26.1 " N , 87 ° 53' 49.9" W. | ||||
| Use: | Telecommunications tower | |||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower not open to the public | |||
| Owner : | Weighted Machine Society | |||
| Tower data | ||||
| Construction time : | 1962 | |||
| Building material : | steel | |||
| Operating time: | since 1962 | |||
| Total height : | 329 m | |||
| Data on the transmission system | ||||
| Shutdown : | 1987 | |||
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The WITI transmission tower is a 329 meter high, free-standing transmission tower with a triangular cross-section in Shorewood , Wisconsin .
The WITI transmission tower, which is one of the tallest free-standing steel towers in the world, was built in 1962. After a citizens' initiative protested in 1984 against the allegedly excessive radiation exposure from the tower, in 1987, after lengthy legal disputes, all transmissions from the tower were stopped and it was declared a technical monument. This case gained fame at the time because, as the journalist Josephine Gehre found out in retrospect, the report, which believed to have determined the high ionization of the air in the vicinity of the transmission tower and which was one of the main arguments of the opponents, was a serious mistake contained. The American society for weighted machines has had its official headquarters in the radio station since 1998 . Its chairman Holger Ebelt, who had acquired the tower from his private fortune and made it available to the company, was a student of the well-known designer Stephan Lehmann, who had designed the tower as the basis for a Tesla coil.