[Lowfer] $12O Hawaii on 518 kHz Navtex

Garry k3siw at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 9 08:23:00 EST 2020


Returned from a trip just in time to catch a nice opening to Hawaii last 
night. Several messages were decoded from station $12O in Hawaii in both 
the and 0630 and 1030 transmission windows thanks to station $04N being 
silent for a change.

For example, at 06:34:36

ZCZC OA86
SECTOR HONOLULU BNM 028-20
HI ISLANDS - ISLAND OF OAHU _A
IOFFS__HOREN__W_DTUAQUW
RETURN TO ORIGIN _
2.IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY ALL VESSELS NOT INVOLVED IN THE
ABOVE
EVENT ARE REQUESTED TO REMAIN CLEAR OF THIS AREA.
3. CANCEL AT TIME//130800Z FEB 20//

NNNN

and at 10:35:08

ZCZC OA66
SECTOR HONOLULU BNM 024-20
HI ISLANDS - ISLAND OF HI - KAWAIHAE
1. KAWAIHAE LT DRAFT HBR LT 5 (LLNR 28271.2) IS
EXITING.
2. ALL MARINERS ARE ADVISED TO TRANSIT WITH CAUTION
AND REPORT ALL SIGHTINGS TO THE USCG SECTOR HONOLULU.
3. POC: HONOLULU 808-842-2606 OR VIA VHF-FM CH 16.
4. CANCEL AT TIME//120011Z FEB 20.//

NNNN

Meanwhile, Hawaiian NDBs LLD on 353 kHz and POA on 332 kHz were also 
coming in well.

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


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