Rogaland Radio is a

coast radio station A coast (or coastal) radio station (short: coast station) is an onshore maritime radio station which monitors radio distress frequencies and relays ship-to-ship and ship-to-land communications. A coast station (also: '' coast radio station '' ...

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. Operated by Telenor Maritim Radio, it has the responsibility for the coast between

Søgne Søgne is a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 2020 when it was merged with the municipalities of Songdalen and Kristiansand into the "new" Kristiansand municipality in what is now ...

and

Sognefjord The Sognefjord or Sognefjorden (, ), nicknamed the King of the Fjords (), is the list of Norwegian fjords, longest and deepest fjord in Norway. Located in Vestland county in Western Norway, it stretches inland from the ocean to the small village ...

. Established in 1960, it was originally located in

Sandnes Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sand ...

. It has since 2003 been jointly located with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre of Southern Norway. It is responsible for transmitting

maritime safety information The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) is a worldwide system for automated emergency signal communication for ships at sea developed by the United Nations' International Maritime Organization (IMO) as part of the SOLAS Convention. ...

via

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in Southern Norway.

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Coast radio stations in Norway Organisations based in Sola, Norway Organisations based in Sandnes 1960 establishments in Norway {{Europe-radio-station-stub