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Masts of Ocean Beach Federal Telegraph Transmitter Station

San Francisco CA United States

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1910
  Finished1910
Units / Rooms2
Building Uses
 - communication
Structural Types
 - guyed mast

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Spire300 fthttps://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-ITT/40s/ITT-Vol-23-1946-04.pdf (page 381)
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Description
Two guyed masts made of wood used to carry a T-antenna.
They were the first radio masts in the United States and used as guys ropes, which were first used by the Geary Street cable car to push their waggons.


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