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.OverviewBase station (or base radio station, BS) is – according to the 's (ITU) (RR) – a " in the." A base stat. In the context of external land surveying, a base station is a receiver at an accurately-known fixed location which is used to derive correction information for nearby portable GPS receivers. This correction.