On-shore maritime radio station
"Coast station" redirects here. For the light rail station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, see
Coast station (PAAC) .
Isfjord Radio, 2007 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 .
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] 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 shortwave anymore.
Coast radio stations
Name
Callsign
Location
Operator
Periode of activity
Kystradio Radio
Bodø , Norway .
Telenor Maritim Radio ,
1938 - ongoing
Scheveningen Radio
PCH
Scheveningen , Netherlands
PTT
1904-1999
Navy Coast Station Marlow
DHO26
Marlow, Rostock, Germany
German Navy
1990this - ongoing
Bern Radio
HEB
Bern, Switzerland
Swisscom Broadcast AG
1941-2016
PNS Hameed
Karachi , Sindh , PakistanPakistan Navy 2016 - ongoing
Isfjord Radio
Kapp Linné , Spitsbergen , Svalbard , Norway
Norwegian Polar Institute
1933 - ongoing
Norddeich Radio
DAN
Osterlood, Norden , Germany
German Telekom 1907-1998
KPH
KPH
Iverness, California, USA
RCA
1930-1998
WCC
WCC
Originally Cape Cod , USA
RCA, Western Union
1903-1997
Shanghai Radio
XSG
XSG21
Shanghai , PR China
ongoing
Taupo Maritime Radio
ZLM
Lake Taupō (tx), Lower Hutt (HQ), New Zealand
Maretime New Zealand[ 2]
ongoing
See also
^ ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.75, definition: coast earth station / coast earth radio station
^ "Our home page - Maritime NZ" . www.maritimenz.govt.nz . Retrieved 2023-08-07 .
