control station

1. 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]