Template:Infobox Radio Tower The Hughes Memorial Tower is a radio tower, located in Washington, DC at 6001 Georgia Avenue, near the intersetion of 9th Street, NW, and Peabody Street, NW. Built on January 15, 1989, the tower is positioned at a latitude of 38° 57' 44.0" North and a longitude of 77° 01' 35.0" West and an elevation of 87.7 meters, 287.7 feet above mean sea level. The tower is owned by the District of Columbia Office of Property Management and is used by the Washington DC Police Department for radio communication on the 460 MHz frequency band. The tower may be the tallest structure in Washington DC, standing at 761 feet (232 meters) tall and surpassing the Washington Monument by more than 200 feet. The tower is registered with the FCC as structure number [1036576[1]].
The Hughes Memorial Tower is a three-legged, free-standing, eiffel-style tower, similar to those built in 1936 for the Naval Radio Transmitter Facility in Annapolis, Maryland. The tower features nine strobe beacons are situated on each of the tower's legs at one beacon per 200 feet. These beacons are synchronized to flash at one-second intervals.
In 1998, the Washington DC Planning Commission approved a plan to use the Hughes Memorial Tower as part of a 911-service upgrade. In doing so, it noted that the tower was constructed without its prior permission and has caused "concern about the effect of the tower on the views of the major monuments and memorials in the Nation’s Capital."
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