[Lowfer] New Navtex station $04I

[Garry Hess]

New to me anyway. Vernon Matheson in NS has reported reception of $04I 
on 518 kHz twice at http://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna/. The station is 
listed as Disko Island, Upernavik, Greenland. I know conditions are good 
to Europe at the moment (clock decodes from TDF on 162 kHz and DCF77 on 
77.5 kHz were made before moving on to Navtex, but it was a pleasant 
surprise to copy Greenland so well during the 0120Z window. I've copied 
the Greenland station on Kook Island, $04W, often in the past during the 
0340Z window but haven't even done that since last winter. Apparently 
there is another Navtex station in Greenland, $04M, that is also 
recently come on-line. Not sure when it transmits but hopefully it won't 
be covered up by more local, long-winded stations.

The first of four messages copied from $04I this evening was:

ZCZC IA05
170120 UTC OCT 11
UPV
021540 UTC SEP 11
GREENLAND KOOK ISLANDS
NAVIGATIONAL WARNING ISLAND COMMANDER GREENLAND NO. 024/10.
WEST COAST OF GREENLAND   ILULISSAT.
A REEF HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN POSITION 6946,842 N - 05041,709 W
(WGS-84).THE DEPTH IS UP TO 8 METRES.(DANISH CHART NO. 1700).
NNNN

73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL