A coast (or coastal) radio station (short: coast station) is an onshore maritime

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting 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 rad ...

which monitors radio distress

frequencies Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. Frequency is an important parameter used in science and engineering to specify the rate of oscillatory and vibratory phenomena, such as mechanical vibrations, audio ...

and relays ship-to-ship and ship-to-land

communication Communication is commonly defined as the transmission of information. Its precise definition is disputed and there are disagreements about whether Intention, unintentional or failed transmissions are included and whether communication not onl ...

s. 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 (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 to th ...

(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''.» Coast Radio Station had an important role in the history of wireless radio communication as well as in maritime and war history. Recent costal radio station provide medical advice services for ships, transmitting meteo messages and navigational warnings (NAV-Notice) on a regular base and all of them do a distress chanel watch (DSC-Watch) on VHF Chanel 16. Not all station monitore

2182 kHz 2182 kHz is a radio frequency designed exclusively for distress calls and related calling operations – Mostly historical information for dates prior to February 2009. in the maritime service. It is equivalent to a wavelength of 137.4 ...

shortwave Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW). There is no official definition of the band range, but it always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (app ...

anymore.

Coast radio stations

References / sources

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
{{Authority control Radio stations and systems ITU Maritime communication

Coast radio stations

See also

References / sources