What is the difference between an antenna and a communications tower?
Also like a skyscraper, a communications tower is a special kind of tall building. It can be either a guyed tower or a skyscraper and is specifically constructed for the siting of antennas, that is, radio or television transmitters and receivers. These towers compose a subclass of signal towers. As such they may also include ladders, platforms, strobe beacons, etc. Like most buildings, communications towers are rarely “standalone”; they are often, in one way or another, intrinsic both structurally and architecturally with some surrounding construction. But, of course, in no case is a communications tower an “antenna”. Plain and simple, communications towers do not transmit or receive radio waves. And people who nonchalantly substitute this word “antenna” for the other word are what I like to consider promoters of deception. What is the tallest building above-ground in the world? That is the 3,250 foot MARS TLP oil and gas drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The gigantic deck is su
