radio towers

Skyline signal spires

Radio towers are tall structures designed to transmit or receive radio signals, including broadcast radio, television, and cellular communications.

They range from small antennas on rooftops to massive freestanding towers hundreds of meters high.

The term often evokes the skeletal steel lattice towers that dot landscapes and city skylines: Radio towers blinked red against the night sky.

Related

signals · receiver · microwaves · over the air · frequency · dead air · lattice · wavelength · transmission · guy wires · base stations · communication · AM · skyline · interference · amplitude modulation · short wave · relay

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Opposites
transmission vs. reception

radio towersradio receivers

Devices capturing broadcast signals

satellite dishes · tuners · listening devices · antennas · car radios

height/visibility

radio towersunderground cables

Wires installed beneath surface

underground bunkers

communication technology generation

radio towersdata centers

Facilities storing networked computers

satellite networks · server farms · internet infrastructure · satellite constellations

Family

radio, tower, radiant, radiate, radios, radiation, radiator, broadcasting, radial

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Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G