Nav aids

NAVTEX station kushiro (k) 42-57.4N 144-35.4E off air 03001Z to 030600Z mar

Western North Pacific · Sea of Japan · Japan · HYDROPAC 747/17

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2017-03-03 07:00Z

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) · NAVAREA XI 150/17 031119Z MAR 17.. Issued 2017-03-02 11:30Z. 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: Western North Pacific · Sea of Japan · Japan. The parsed report position is 43.141, 142.518. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

issued: 2017-03-02 11:30Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2017-03-03 07:00Z
authority: NAVAREA XI 150/17 031119Z MAR 17.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XI · named as the source of this relay
position: 43.141, 142.518
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
SEA OF JAPAN.
JAPAN.
DNC 24.
1. NAVTEX STATION KUSHIRO (K) 42-57.4N 144-35.4E
   OFF AIR 03001Z TO 030600Z MAR.
   KUSHIRO BROADCASTS WILL BE TRANSMITTED FROM
   NAVTEX STATION OTARU (J) 43-19.5N 140-26.8E.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 030700Z MAR 17.

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.
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

16 within 180 nm since 2000 · 0 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.

Month of issue in the collected archive

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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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 02:57Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

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