Nav aids

Mcts iqaluit center 63-43.8N 068-32.7W remote station satellite services unreliable 1857Z to 1931Z daily 10…

Davis Strait · HYDROARC 302/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-10-17 20:31Z

This notice comes from the historical archive. Its archived status does not establish when or how the reported situation ended.

Source and dates
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · NAVAREA XVIII 108/22 040202Z OCT 22.. Issued 2022-10-04 05:07Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:38Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-17 15:46Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Davis Strait. The parsed report position is 63.730, -68.545. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Davis Strait →

Activity windows · 8 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2022-10-10 18:57Z2022-10-10 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-11 18:57Z2022-10-11 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-12 18:57Z2022-10-12 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-13 18:57Z2022-10-13 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-14 18:57Z2022-10-14 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-15 18:57Z2022-10-15 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-16 18:57Z2022-10-16 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-17 18:57Z2022-10-17 19:31Z—34 min

Parsed from the warning text; outside these windows the area is normally not active, but the warning stays in force until cancelled.

issued
2022-10-04 05:07Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2022-10-17 20:31Z
authority
NAVAREA XVIII 108/22 040202Z OCT 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XVIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Davis Strait
position
63.730, -68.545
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

DAVIS STRAIT.
CANADA.
DNC 28.
1. MCTS IQALUIT CENTER 63-43.8N 068-32.7W
   REMOTE STATION SATELLITE SERVICES UNRELIABLE
   1857Z TO 1931Z DAILY 10 THRU 17 OCT.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 172031Z OCT 22.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
A reference to one of the regions of NGA's Digital Nautical Chart, used to tell the reader which charts a warning affects.
Position (degrees and minutes)
How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air
An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
Date-time group (DTG)
A compact UTC timestamp — day, hour and minute followed by Z — such as 201500Z for the 20th at 15:00 UTC.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

107 within 180 nm since 2011 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

134 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 17:15Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.