Nav aids

Mcts iqaluit center 63-43.8N 068-32.7W remote station satellite services unreliable 1857Z to 1931Z daily 10…

Davis Strait · NAVAREA IV 1031/22

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2022-10-17 20:31Z

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 XVIII 108/22 040202Z OCT 22.. Issued 2022-10-04 05:07Z. 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
Davis Strait. The parsed report position is 63.730, -68.545. 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 Davis Strait →

Activity windows · 8 in this warning

opens (UTC)closes (UTC)locallength
2022-10-10 18:57Z2022-10-10 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-11 18:57Z2022-10-11 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-12 18:57Z2022-10-12 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-13 18:57Z2022-10-13 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-14 18:57Z2022-10-14 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-15 18:57Z2022-10-15 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-16 18:57Z2022-10-16 19:31Z—34 min
2022-10-17 18:57Z2022-10-17 19:31Z—34 min

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

issued
2022-10-04 05:07Z
status
Archived notice
self-cancels
2022-10-17 20:31Z
authority
NAVAREA XVIII 108/22 040202Z OCT 22.
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
sea
Davis Strait
position
63.730, -68.545
source
NGA MSI broadcast-warn JSON (archive, frozen 2024-05) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:38Z

Original warning text

DAVIS STRAIT.
CANADA.
1. MCTS IQALUIT CENTER 63-43.8N 068-32.7W
   REMOTE STATION SATELLITE SERVICES UNRELIABLE
   1857Z TO 1931Z DAILY 10 THRU 17 OCT.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 172031Z OCT 22.

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.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air
An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.
CANCEL THIS MSG
The warning's own expiry: a line telling the reader when the message cancels itself.
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.

All warning terms →

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

107 within 180 nm since 2011 · 0 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

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23

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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A
M
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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

No other collected notice is currently listed in force within this radius. This does not establish safe conditions.

Worldwide in the collected sources

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-02 17:15Z; 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.