Nav aids

Uscg communication facility guam (V) 13-28.6N 144-50.1E hf and mf services unreliable 181500Z to 181600Z oct

North Pacific Ocean · HYDROPAC 3302/23

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2023-10-18 17:00Z

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) · COGARD COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND 0/23 170417Z OCT 23.. Issued 2023-10-17 04:48Z. 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
North Pacific Ocean. The parsed report position is 13.477, 144.835. 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
2023-10-18 15:00Z2023-10-18 16:00Z—1 h

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

issued
2023-10-17 04:48Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2023-10-18 17:00Z
authority
COGARD COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND 0/23 170417Z OCT 23.
issued by
COGARD COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND
sea
North Pacific Ocean
position
13.477, 144.835
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
GUAM.
NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.
DNC 12.
1. USCG COMMUNICATION FACILITY GUAM
   (V) 13-28.6N 144-50.1E HF AND MF SERVICES
   UNRELIABLE 181500Z TO 181600Z OCT.
2. CANCEL HYDROPAC 3299/23.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 181700Z OCT 23.

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.
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.
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.
Cancellation reference
A line that cancels an earlier warning by its number, such as CANCEL HYDROLANT 1085/12.
HYDROPAC
The U.S. long-range warning series for the Pacific outside NAVAREA XII and for the Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf and adjoining seas.
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

37 within 180 nm since 2008 · 10 in the last 12 months · 2 listed in force now

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26

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 20:27Z; 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.