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Commdet kodiak, ak remote site point higgins 55-27N 131-49W hf voice, dsc and broadcast services off air…

The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia · NAVAREA XII 680/21

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2021-12-01 21:30Z

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 301902Z NOV 21.. Issued 2021-11-30 23:08Z. 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: The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. The parsed report position is 55.450, -131.817. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia →

issued: 2021-11-30 23:08Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2021-12-01 21:30Z
authority: COGARD COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND 301902Z NOV 21.
NAVAREA: NAVAREA XII
issued by: COGARD COMMUNICATIONS COMMAND
sea: The Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia
position: 55.450, -131.817
source: NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

EASTERN NORTH PACIFIC.
ALASKA.
1. COMMDET KODIAK, AK REMOTE SITE POINT HIGGINS
   55-27N 131-49W HF VOICE, DSC AND BROADCAST
   SERVICES OFF AIR 011800Z THRU 012030Z DEC.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 012130Z DEC 21.

Reading this warning

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.
DSC (Digital Selective Calling): The digital radio alert built into modern marine radios — one button sends a distress alert with the vessel's identity and position.
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

184 within 180 nm since 2006 · 1 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

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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 06:43Z; 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.