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Keating point dgps 09-15.4N 092-46.6E off air 300130Z to 301030Z apr

Andaman or Burma Sea · HYDROPAC 1648/18

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2018-04-30 11:30Z

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 VIII 337/18 271005Z APR 18.. Issued 2018-04-27 16:09Z. 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
Andaman or Burma Sea. The parsed report position is 9.257, 92.777. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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Activity windows · 1 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2018-04-30 01:30Z2018-04-30 10:30Z—9 h

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

issued
2018-04-27 16:09Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2018-04-30 11:30Z
authority
NAVAREA VIII 337/18 271005Z APR 18.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
sea
Andaman or Burma Sea
position
9.257, 92.777
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

ANDAMAN SEA.
NICOBAR ISLANDS.
DNC 03.
CHART 63380, 63390.
1. KEATING POINT DGPS 09-15.4N 092-46.6E
   OFF AIR 300130Z TO 301030Z APR.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 301130Z APR 18.

Reading this warning

DNC (Digital Nautical Chart)
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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)
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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

112 within 180 nm since 1999 · 3 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.

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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 2026-10-03 23:18Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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

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