[Lowfer] 518 kHz Navtex

[Garry Hess]

Plenty of messages decoded here over night. Nice to see San Francisco 
coming through along with the usual west coast copy of Astoria and Long 
Beach. Also nice to see Curacao again even with Wiarton, ON active. Most 
surprising were decodes from area 4 station F in Boston. That's usually 
QRMed here by station E. Given the big storm hitting Boston the messages 
were strange. The first 3 involved California and Hawaii!:

CZC FE06
SD-0007-15//A//
BROADCAST AT Q
SECTOR SAN DIEGO BNM SD-0007-15
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE
FOLLOWING DATES AND
TIMES:
262215Z - 270015Z JAN 2015
271800Z - 280015Z JAN 2015
281800Z - 282200Z JAN 2015
291800Z - 292100Z JAN 2015
301700Z - 302000Z JAN 2015
IN AN AREA BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES:
32-50-42 N  118-29-18 W
32-47-38 N  118-32-19 W
32-55-00 N  118-39-40 W
32-55-00 N  118-32-49 W
THENCE POINT OF ORIGIN
MARINERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO AVOID THIS AREA
DURING THE SPECIFIED
DATES AND TIMES.
2. CANCEL AT TIME//302100Z JAN 15//

NNNN

ZCZC FE16
SD-0006-15//A//
BROADCAST AT Q
SECTOR SAN DIEGO BNM SD-0006-15
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS WILL TAKE PLACE ON THE
  FOLLOWING DATES AND
TIMES:
262215Z - 270445Z JAN 2015
271930Z - 280445Z JAN 2015
281845Z - 290445Z JAN 2015
292000Z - 300445Z JAN 2015
IN AN AREA BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING COORDINATES:
32-55-00 N  118-25-00 W
32-55-00 N  118-15-00 W
32-40-00 N  118-15-00 W
32-40-00 N  118-35-00 W
32-45-00 N  118-35-00 W
THENCE POINT OF ORIGIN
MARINERS ARE STRONGLY ADVISED TO AVOID THIS AREA
DURING THE SPECIFIED
DATES AND TIMES.
_:-,:3) -5 58.3//300545Z JAN 15//

NNNN

ZCZC FE47
1. THE FOLLOWING SECTOR HONOLULU SAFETY BROADCAST NOTICE TO MARINERS

ARE STILL IN EFFECT AS OF 160705Z JAN 15:
006-15  KAWAIHAE HARBOR LIGHT 6               052330Z JAN 15

011-15  HAZNAV 2 SECTIONS METAL W OAHU        160201Z JAN 15

2. ALL OTHER SECTOR HONOLULU BROADCAST NOTICE TO MARINERS HAVE
BEEN
CANCELLED.//

NNNN

The fourth message finally seemed appropriate, but it was clipped at the 
end by station G starting up:

ZCZC FB08
FZNT23 KWNM 271512
OFFN01

NAVTEX MARINE FORECAST FOR NE US WATERS
NWS OCEAN PREDICTION CENTER WASHINGTON DC
1012 AM EST TUE JAN 27 2015

CONDITIONS GIVEN REPRESENT THE HIGHEST WITHIN THAT PERIOD.

...PLEASE REFER TO COASTAL WATERS FORECASTS (CWF) AVAILABLE
THROUGH NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER MEANS FOR DETAILED
COASTAL WATERS FORECASTS...

.SYNOISOIS...A STRGNLOWLOW PRES CENTER NEAR 41N 69W WILL DRIFT
NE
ACROSS THE WATERS TODAY...PASS NE OF THE WATERS TONIGHT...THEN


CONTINUE OFF TO THE NE WED INTO WED NIGHT WH_
ZCZC

-- 
73, Garry, K3SIW, EN52ta, Elgin, IL