Nav aids

Mcts iqaluit centre 63-43.8N 068-32.7W remote stations satellite services unreliable 1900Z to 1935Z daily 08…

Davis Strait · NAVAREA IV 849/16

What this record establishes

Archived notice · 2016-10-18 20:35Z

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 112/16 052300Z OCT 16.. Issued 2016-10-06 11:25Z. 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 · 11 in this warning

opens (UTC)	closes (UTC)	local	length
2016-10-08 19:00Z	2016-10-08 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-09 19:00Z	2016-10-09 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-10 19:00Z	2016-10-10 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-11 19:00Z	2016-10-11 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-12 19:00Z	2016-10-12 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-13 19:00Z	2016-10-13 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-14 19:00Z	2016-10-14 19:35Z	—	35 min
2016-10-15 19:00Z	2016-10-15 19:35Z	—	35 min
… 3 more

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

issued: 2016-10-06 11:25Z
status: Archived notice
self-cancels: 2016-10-18 20:35Z
authority: NAVAREA XVIII 112/16 052300Z OCT 16.
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

ARCTIC.
CANADA-NORTH COAST.
RADIO SERVICES.
1. MCTS IQALUIT CENTRE 63-43.8N 068-32.7W REMOTE STATIONS
   SATELLITE SERVICES UNRELIABLE 1900Z TO 1935Z DAILY
   08 THRU 18 OCT.
2. CANCEL THIS MSG 182035Z OCT 16.

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.

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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

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

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

Record snapshot 2026-10-03 05:51Z; 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.