Coast earth station
Coast earth station, also called the coast earth radio station is – according to article 1.76 of the International Telecommunication Union´s ITU Radio Regulations – defined as «An earth station in the fixed-satellite service or, in some cases, in the maritime mobile-satellite service, located at a specified fixed point on land to provide a feeder link for the maritime mobile-satellite service.»
Each radio station shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.Classification
In accordance with ITU Radio Regulations this type of radio station might be classified as follows:
Earth station
- Mobile earth station of the mobile-satellite service
- Land earth station of the fixed-satellite service or mobile-satellite service
- *Land mobile earth station of the land mobile-satellite service
- Base earth station of the fixed-satellite service
- Coast earth station
- Ship earth station of the mobile-satellite service
- Aeronautical earth station of the fixed-satellite service / aeronautical mobile-satellite service
- Aircraft earth station of the aeronautical mobile-satellite service