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A coast (or coastal) radio station (short: coast station) is an on-shore
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
{{Authority control Radio stations and systems ITU Maritime communication
A coast (or coastal) radio station (short: coast station) is an on-shore maritime
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radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radi ...
which may monitor radio distress frequencies and relays ship-to-ship and ship-to-land communication
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A coast station (also: '' coast radio station '') is – according to ''article 1.75'' of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations
The ITU Radio Regulations (short: RR) is a basic document of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that regulates on law of nations scale radiocommunication services and the utilisation of radio frequencies. It is the supplementation t ...
(RR)ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.75, definition: '' coast earth station / coast earth radio station'' – defined as «''A land station in the maritime mobile service A maritime mobile service (also MMS or maritime mobile radiocommunication service) is a mobile service between coast stations and ship stations, or between ship stations, or between associated on-board communication stations. The service may also ...
''.»
See also
*Marconi Station
A list of early wireless telegraphy radio stations of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Guglielmo Marconi developed the first practical radio transmitters and receivers between 1895 and 1901. His company, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph ...
* Utility station
* KPH - A preserved RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electric (GE), Westinghouse, AT&T Corporation and United Fruit Comp ...
coastal wireless station in California
* WCC - A former coastal wireless station on Cape Cod
Cape Cod is a peninsula extending into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeastern corner of mainland Massachusetts, in the northeastern United States. Its historic, maritime character and ample beaches attract heavy tourism during the summer mont ...
, now operating from Maryland
* Portishead Radio
Portishead Radio (callsign GKA) was a radio station in England that provided worldwide maritime communications and long-range aeronautical communications from 1928 until 2000. It was the world's largest and busiest long-distance HF maritime radio ...
- former UK station
References / sources
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
{{Authority control Radio stations and systems ITU Maritime communication