Nav aids

Dgps station at punta de la estaca de bares light 43-47.2N 007-41.1W inoperative

Bay of Biscay · HYDROLANT 633/03

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2003-05-22 16:10Z

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 II 107/03 251826Z MAR 03. Issued 2003-03-25 19:20Z. 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
Bay of Biscay. The parsed report position is 43.787, -7.685. 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 Bay of Biscay →

issued
2003-03-25 19:20Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA II 107/03 251826Z MAR 03
NAVAREA
NAVAREA II · named as the source of this relay
sea
Bay of Biscay
position
43.787, -7.685
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

CHART 37505 (2ND ED).
DGPS STATION AT PUNTA DE LA ESTACA DE BARES LIGHT
43-47.2N 007-41.1W INOPERATIVE.

Reading this warning

Chart reference
The number of the nautical chart on which the reported position lies.
GNSS / GPS
Satellite positioning — GPS and other systems — and the testing, jamming and interference that make it unreliable in an area.
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.

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

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

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 03:16Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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

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