Nav aids

RACON at south cardinal buoy 01-03.61N 103-38.96E inoperative

South China Sea · HYDROPAC 3283/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-12-11 06:55Z

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 XI 359/23 150401Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-15 05:33Z. 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 China Sea. The parsed report position is 1.060, 103.649. 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
2023-10-15 05:33Z
status
Archived notice
authority
NAVAREA XI 359/23 150401Z OCT 23.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
sea
South China Sea
position
1.060, 103.649
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

SOUTH CHINA SEA.
INDONESIA.
DNC 03.
RACON AT SOUTH CARDINAL BUOY
01-03.61N 103-38.96E INOPERATIVE.

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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

66 within 180 nm since 1999 · 2 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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Worldwide in the collected sources

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Record snapshot 2026-10-01 10:41Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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