RACON at conceicao light 31-43.83S 051-28.90W
South Atlantic Ocean · HYDROLANT 699/24
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2024-10-01 00:01Z
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 V COASTAL 205/24 040033Z APR 24.. Issued 2024-04-04 06:11Z. 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
- South Atlantic Ocean. The parsed report position is -31.730, -51.482. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.
Related notices and cancellation links
- RACON at conceicao light 31-43.83S 051-28.90W inoperativecancelled by this notice
Current notices and reporting history in the South Atlantic Ocean →
- issued
- 2024-04-04 06:11Z
- status
- Archived notice
- self-cancels
- 2024-10-01 00:01Z
- authority
- NAVAREA V COASTAL 205/24 040033Z APR 24.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA V · named as the source of this relay
- issued by
- NAVAREA V COASTAL
- sea
- South Atlantic Ocean
- position
- -31.730, -51.482
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
WESTERN SOUTH ATLANTIC. BRAZIL. DNC 07. 1. RACON AT CONCEICAO LIGHT 31-43.83S 051-28.90W. INOPERATIVE UNTIL 30 SEP. 2. CANCEL HYDROLANT 2350/23. 3. CANCEL THIS MSG 010001Z OCT 24.
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.
- RACON (radar beacon)
- A radar beacon on a buoy, lighthouse or structure that answers a ship's radar with a Morse-code mark on the screen.
- 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.
- Cancellation reference
- A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
- HYDROLANT
- The U.S. long-range warning series for Atlantic waters outside NAVAREA IV, including the eastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and adjoining seas.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
165 within 180 nm since 1999 · 5 in the last 12 months · 1 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.
- Itapeva light 29-33.40S 049-53.37W unlit until 07 mar 272026-09-09
- Sarita light 32-37.81S 052-25.76W unlit until 07 mar 272026-09-09
- Radiobeacon at chui light 33-44.6S 053-22.5W off air until 17 jan 272026-07-22
- Odas buoy temporarily established in 32-14.29S 051-58.16W2026-06-27
- Odas buoy temporarily established in 32-32.46S 052-06.03W until 31 dec 272026-04-23
- Chui light 33-44.60S 053-22.50W unlit until 12 feb 252024-08-17
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
Worldwide in the collected sources
137 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:06Z; 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.