Nav aids

U.S. Coast Guard remote communication facility at New Orleans, Louisiana is off air for high-frequency digital selective calling.

Gulf of Mexico · NAVAREA IV 737/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-08-21 15:40Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-07-29 23:41Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-08-23 15:32Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered
Gulf of Mexico. The parsed report position is 29.883, -89.950. 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 Gulf of Mexico →

issued
2026-07-29 23:41Z
status
Cancelled notice
NAVAREA
NAVAREA IV
sea
Gulf of Mexico
position
29.883, -89.950
nearest port
New Orleans · 6 nm
source
NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

GULF OF MEXICO.
LOUISIANA.
USCG REMOTE COMMUNICATION FACILITY
NEW ORLEANS 29-53.00N 089-57.00W
HF DSC SERVICES OFF AIR.

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.

All warning terms →

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

121 within 180 nm since 2000 · 3 in the last 12 months · 1 listed in force now

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05
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15
20
25
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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F
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A
M
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A
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D

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 05:57Z; 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.