Nav aids

Loran-c station vaerlandet (61-18N 004-42E), rate 7499-Y, off air 020700Z to 020900Z oct

Norwegian Sea · HYDROLANT 2452/15

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2015-10-02 10:00Z

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 I 310/15 010528Z OCT 15.. Issued 2015-10-01 09:07Z. 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: Norwegian Sea. The parsed report position is 61.300, 4.700. 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 Norwegian Sea →

Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2015-10-02 07:00Z	2015-10-02 09:00Z	—	2 h

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

issued: 2015-10-01 09:07Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2015-10-02 10:00Z
authority: NAVAREA I 310/15 010528Z OCT 15.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA I · named as the source of this relay
sea: Norwegian Sea
position: 61.300, 4.700
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EUROPE-NORTHWEST COAST.
1. LORAN-C STATION VAERLANDET (61-18N 004-42E),
   RATE 7499-Y, OFF AIR 020700Z TO 020900Z OCT.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 021000Z OCT 15.

Reading this warning

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.
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.
CANCEL THIS MSG: The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.

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

174 within 180 nm since 1999 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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.

Firths voe light 60-27.20N 001-10.60W unreliable2023-12-28
Muckle flugga light 60-51.30N 000-53.10W unlit2023-10-13
Firths voe light 60-27.20N 001-10.60W unreliable2023-08-26
Symbister ness light 60-20.40N 001-02.30W unlit2023-03-14
Out skerries light 60-25.50N 000-43.70W unreliable2023-02-03
Out skerries light 60-25.50N 000-43.70W unreliable2023-01-02

Month of issue in the collected archive

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 2026-10-04 00:39Z; 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.