Nav aids

RACON at 25-49.85N 057-19.20E inoperative

Persian Gulf · HYDROPAC 3043/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-10-07 15:51Z

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 IX 360/23 231520Z SEP 23.. Issued 2023-09-23 16:57Z. 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
Persian Gulf. The parsed report position is 25.831, 57.320. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

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issued
2023-09-23 16:57Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA IX 360/23 231520Z SEP 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IX · named as the source of this relay
sea
Persian Gulf
position
25.831, 57.320
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
IRAN.
DNC 10.
RACON AT 25-49.85N 057-19.20E 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.
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.

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

35 within 180 nm since 1999 · 1 in the last 12 months · 2 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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-01 19:11Z; 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.