- Armstrong Tower
Armstrong Tower, also known as Alpine Tower, is a 425 foot (129.5 meter) tall
lattice tower built and used byEdwin Armstrong in 1938 atAlpine, New Jersey , USA at 40°57'39.0" N and 73°55'21.0" W for his transmission experiments that led to modernFM radio . The original transmissions occurred at 42.8MHz. [http://members.aol.com/jeff560/nyfm.html]Armstrong Tower looks like a huge pylon with three crossbars and is now used for directional radio services (including as a
cell site ). It was also used as a temporary transmitter site for some ofNew York City 's television stations and FM stations after theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks and thecollapse of the World Trade Center , including its transmitting antenna. [http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-050610.html] The tower still stands today, still in use, and is clearly visible from across the Hudson River.At the base of the tower is a building originally used by Armstrong for research. It now serves as a museum and contains artifacts from the development of FM radio technology. The building still has the name of the original transmitter written above the entrance, W2XMN [http://www.nparc.org/images/2006/Armstrong/WA2DKJ/DSCN3654.jpg]
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* [http://www.fybush.com/sites/2005/site-050610.html Armstrong Tower featured on Scott Fybush's Tower Site Of The Week page in December of 2002.]
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* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=alpine+nj&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=18&ll=40.960695,-73.922898&spn=0.002289,0.00633&t=h&iwloc=A Google Maps view of Armstrong Tower]
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