Tower array 597515
Wilmington, Delaware · New Castle County
Overview
Structure 597515 about 8.9 km (5.5 mi) from Wilmington, DE is recorded in the FCC's Antenna Structure Registration database as a tower array element measuring 106 m (347 ft) tall.
Among the 232 registered structures in Delaware, it ranks 35th by height, taller than 85.3% of them.
Draper Media, INC. is the registered owner and accounts for 16.7% of the registered structures in Wilmington, DE.
Line-of-sight distance from the top of a 106 m structure is about 42 km (26.3 mi) under the standard 4/3-earth model. Actual usable range is normally much shorter, since hills, buildings and foliage all cut into it.
This is a dense cluster: 11 other registered structures fall within 5 km, the closest just 55 m to the WNW.
It is one of 24 structures on the FCC register in Wilmington, DE, and dates from the 1980s.
Location
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Registration record
as filed with the FCC| FCC registration | 597515 |
|---|---|
| Structure type | Tower array |
| Overall height (AGL) | 106 m (347 ft) |
| Height above sea level | 220 m (720 ft) |
| Constructed | 1984 |
| Date on record | 1 Jan 1984 |
| Coordinates | 39.81592, -75.52922 |
| County | New Castle County |
| Registered owner | Draper Media, INC. |
| Owner type | Broadcaster |
How it compares
calculated from the full national dataset| Height rank in Delaware | 35th of 232 taller than 85.3% |
|---|---|
| Height rank in Wilmington | 3rd of 24 |
| Height rank in county | 5th of 93 |
| Median tower array in Delaware | 72 m (235 ft) +47.8% vs median |
| Radio horizon (estimate) | 42 km (26 mi) theoretical maximum, flat terrain |
| Other structures within 5 km | 11 |
Nearest registered structures
north is up| Distance | Bearing | Type | Height | ASR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55 m | WNW | Tower array | 105 m (345 ft) | 597514 |
| 56 m | S | Tower array | 72 m (236 ft) | 597517 |
| 75 m | WSW | Tower | 151 m (495 ft) | 2679677 |
| 102 m | NNW | Tower array | 72 m (235 ft) | 597516 |
| 2.1 km (1.3 mi) | NNE | Tower | 113 m (370 ft) | 2653176 |
About this record
One element of a 4-tower array. Multi-tower arrays are typically AM broadcast antennas, where the towers work together to shape the signal in a particular direction.
Details on this page come from the FCC's public ASR file. The register records the physical structure and its owner; it does not list the antennas mounted on it or the networks they serve.
"Owner" is the entity that registered the structure, usually a tower company such as American Tower or Crown Castle. It does not indicate which carriers operate equipment on the structure.