shore station


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Noun1.shore station - military installation servicing naval forces
military installation - any facility servicing military forces
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
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They are installed in racks within a ship's radio room or at a shore station, where they cover long-haul ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications.
The site had served as a storage station for crude oil from a receiving shore station at the Port of Amlwch before transfer via a cross country underground pipeline to the Company's oil refinery at Stanlow, Ellesmere Port.
IJohnstone was the last custodian at Muckle Flugga before it was automated and he bought a flat in the converted shore station.
They swim independently, co-ordinate with each other, and transmit their readings back to a shore station up to a kilometre away.
Shore station program, http://shorestation.ucsd.edu/ active/index_active.html.
Little Palm Island is situated at mile marker 28.5 on the Overseas Highway and is a 15-minute ride from the shore station on Little Torch Key.
What approaches a case history of this first "exploitation-depletion cycle" is seen in Chapter Seven through the experience of the shore station at Aquaforte, on Newfoundland's Southern Shore.
The new Real Time Offshore Seismic Station--deployed May 6, 2007, and being tested for the first time--sensitively detects rumblings from the submerged volcano and transmits data within milliseconds by high-frequency radio to a coastal shore station.
He says: "The Americans were transmitting from a shore station popular music and day to day news reports, and when the news came that war had ended we were very pleased and relieved."
ONE wonders if any ex-naval World War II personnel can give me any information on HMS Peewit, whether a vessel or shore station in 1944, and any relevant details for that particular year.

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