Control Station

The station on a network, which supervises the network control procedures such as polling, selecting, and recovery. It also is responsible for establishing order on the line in the event of contention, or any other abnormal situation, arising between any stations on the network.

In a communications network, the station that selects the master station and supervises operational procedures, such as polling, selecting, and recovery. Note: The control station has the overall responsibility for the orderly operation of the entire network. 2. A fixed station whose transmissions are used to control automatically the emissions or operations of another radio station at a specified location, or to transmit automatically to an alarm center telemetering information relative to the operation of such station. [47CFR]