Coast radio station

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Isfjord Radio, 2007 Isfjord Radio.jpg
Isfjord Radio, 2007
Former Belgium coast station, exposed in the National fishing-museum in Koksijde Visserijmuseum021.jpg
Former Belgium coast station, exposed in the National fishing-museum in Koksijde

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.

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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 (RR) [1] – 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 stations monitor 2.182 MHz shortwave anymore.

Coast radio stations

NameCallsignLocationOperatorPeriod of activity
Kystradio Radio Bodø, Norway. Telenor Maritim Radio,1938 - ongoing
Scheveningen RadioPCH Scheveningen, Netherlands PTT1904-1999
Navy Coast Station Marlow DHO26Marlow, Rostock, Germany German Navy 1990 - ongoing
Bern RadioHEBBern, Switzerland Swisscom Broadcast AG 1941-2016
PNS Hameed Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan Pakistan Navy 2016 - ongoing
Isfjord Radio Kapp Linné, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway Norwegian Polar Institute 1933 - ongoing
Norddeich Radio DANOsterlood, Norden, Germany German Telekom 1907-1998
KPH KPHIverness, California, USARCA1930-1998
WCC WCCOriginally Cape Cod, USARCA, Western Union1903-1997
Shanghai RadioXSG

XSG21

Shanghai, PR China ongoing
Taupo Maritime RadioZLM Lake Taupō (tx), Lower Hutt (HQ), New Zealand Maretime New Zealand [2] ongoing

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References / sources

  1. ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.75, definition: coast earth station / coast earth radio station
  2. "Our home page - Maritime NZ". www.maritimenz.govt.nz. Retrieved 2023-08-07.