Høiåsmasten is a TV tower used for FM- and TV-transmission near Halden

Halden

is a both a town and a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The seat of the municipality, Halden is a border town located at the Tista river delta on the Iddefjord, the southernmost border crossing between Norway and Sweden.-History:...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Høiåsmasten, built in 1980, is one of the tallest partially guyed tower

Partially guyed tower

A partially guyed tower is a tower structure which consists of a free-standing basement, in most cases of concrete or of lattice steel with a guyed mast on the top. The anchor basements of the guyed mast can be on the top of the tower or on the ground.-Use:...

s in the world and with a height of 320 metres (1,050 ft) the second tallest tower of Norway. It consists, like the Gerbrandy Tower

Gerbrandy Tower

The Gerbrandy Tower is a tower which was built in 1961 in the Netherlands.-Description:It is situated in IJsselstein. The Gerbrandy Tower is used for directional radio services and for FM- and TV-broadcasting. The Gerbrandy Tower consists of a concrete tower with a height of 100 meters on which a...

, of a concrete tower as basement on which the antenna mast, guyed to the ground, is mounted. However this mast is, in contrast to that of Gerbrandy Tower, a lattice structure and not a tube structure.

See also

• List of masts
• List of towers
• List of tallest structures in Norway