signal station
Message transmission point
A signal station is a facility for sending or receiving signals—originally flags, lights, or semaphore, later radio or telegraph.
Coastal signal stations communicated with ships; railway signal stations controlled train movements.
The term now applies to any fixed point in a communication network: The signal station relayed messages between the two bases.
- semaphoreFlag-based signaling system
- heliographSunlight-based signaling device
- lighthouseCoastal beacon tower
- warning beaconFlashing light signaling danger
- watch towerElevated surveillance structure
lookout point · flag · navigation aid · smoke signals · Morse code · telegraph office · transmitter · signalman · radio tower · military coordination · early warning · beacon · tower · coast guard · antenna · hilltop · line of sight · naval
signal stationreceiver
One who accepts transmission
listening post · listening station · monitoring station · observation post
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