Ship earth station
Ship earth station (also: ship earth radio station) is – according to Article 1.78 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR)[1] – defined as "A mobile earth station in the maritime mobile-satellite service located on board ship."
Ship earth station aerials on board high-seas yacht
Inmarsat ship earth station on poop of a yacht
The ITU regulation requires that each radio station be classified according to the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.
Ship earth stations can provide a variety of radiocommunication services including crew calling.
Classification
In accordance with ITU Radio Regulations (article 1) this type of radio station might be classified as follows:
Earth station (article 1.63)
- Mobile earth station (article 1.68) of the mobile-satellite service (article 1.25)
- Land earth station (article 1.70) of the fixed-satellite service (article 1.21) or mobile-satellite service
- Land mobile earth station (article 1.74) of the land mobile-satellite service (article 1.27)
- Base earth station (article 1.72) of the fixed-satellite service
- Coast earth station (article 1.76) of the fixed-satellite service / mobile-satellite service
- Ship earth station
- Aeronautical earth station (article 1.82) of the fixed-satellite service / aeronautical mobile-satellite service (article 1.35)
- Aircraft earth station (article 1.84) of the aeronautical mobile-satellite service
References / sources
- ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.78, definition: ship earth station / ship earth radio station
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