NAVTEX station vakalapudi (q) 17-00.8N 082-17.1E inoperative
Bay of Bengal · HYDROPAC 2249/20
What this record establishes
Archived notice · 2020-07-31 15:31Z
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 VIII 415/20 301544Z JUL 20.. Issued 2020-07-30 15:49Z. 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 Bengal. The parsed report position is 17.013, 82.285. 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
- Cancel HYDROPAC 2249/20 and this msglater cancellation notice
Current notices and reporting history in the Bay of Bengal →
- issued
- 2020-07-30 15:49Z
- status
- Archived notice
- authority
- NAVAREA VIII 415/20 301544Z JUL 20.
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA VIII · named as the source of this relay
- sea
- Bay of Bengal
- position
- 17.013, 82.285
- source
- NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z
Original warning text
BAY OF BENGAL. INDIA. DNC 03. NAVTEX STATION VAKALAPUDI (Q) 17-00.8N 082-17.1E INOPERATIVE.
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.
- NAVTEX
- An automated medium-frequency radio service that sends coastal warnings as text to a small printer or screen on board.
- 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.
Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices
42 within 180 nm since 2003 · 3 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.
- RACON at dolphin nose light in 17-40.50N 083-17.70E2026-07-06
- Pudimadaka light 17-29.27N 083-00.22E unlit2025-12-04
- NAVTEX station vakalpudi (q) 17-00.80N 082-17.10E inoperative2025-11-03
- RACON (k) 15-02.70N 080-02.97E inoperative2024-09-13
- Nagayalanka light 15-47.11N 080-59.22E unlit2023-05-02
- RACON at narasapur light 16-19.02N 081-43.55E inoperative2022-08-09
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
138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all
Record snapshot 2026-10-01 09:31Z; 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.