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n. 1 (context surveying English) A GPS receiver at known fixed location, used to derive correction information for nearby portable GPS receivers. 2 (context computing networking English) A radio receiver/transmitter that serves as the hub of the local wireless network, and may also be the gateway between a wired network and the wireless network. 3 (context radio English) A wireless communications station installed at a fixed location and used to communicate as part of a two-way radio system or wireless telephone system.
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A 1980s consumer-grade Citizens' band radio (CB) base station.]]
Base station (also: base radio station) is – according to article 1.71 of the International Telecommunication Union´s (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "A land station in the land mobile service."
The term base station is used in the context of mobile telephony, wireless computer networking and other wireless communications and in land surveying: in surveying it is a GPS receiver at a known position, while in wireless communications it is a transceiver connecting a number of other devices to one another and/or to a wider area. In mobile telephony it provides the connection between mobile phones and the wider telephone network. In a computer network it is a transceiver acting as a router for computers in the network, possibly connecting them to a local area network and/or the internet. In traditional wireless communications it can refer to the hub of a dispatch fleet such as a taxi or delivery fleet, the base of a TETRA network as used by government and emergency services or a CB shack.
- ITU Radio Regulations, Section IV. Radio Stations and Systems – Article 1.71, definition: base station / base radio station↩
Usage examples of "base station".
It was a great day for the Rondymense Ship Yard when the Mark 5 prototype was freed from the last gantry umbilical and moored at the Naval Base station.
Far be it from the richest man in the world to ride in the back of a muddy van, so they strapped him securely into Vic's seat, and my nephew came back to sit silently with me while we traveled the last few kilometers to the cog railway base station.
We turned to the right and I knew we were on the back road leading to the cog base station.
The telescreen at the end of the car, busy a moment before with a blonde beauty demonstrating Sorkin's SuperStellar Soap, now read: TERRA BASE STATION.
The base station used channel twenty-five and the call sign of Genesis.
Or was it because he was afraid to leave the Condor's vital base station unguarded in the event K6ATX circled back and wrecked the place?
The radio unit was the latest in electronic communications technology, a twenty-kilo man-portable base station which could serve at a TAC COM set in the field, or establish long-range communications through the folding dish and a geosynchronous communications satellite.