Anyone got access to live Nasvtex at the moment?

[tillergirl]

Prodding around the request for MSI information to be included in my NtM service or in some way, I was curious as to whether the current warning about steel unlit mooring buoys is being broadcast on Navtex. Anyone live who might be able to tell me please?

 

[MoodySabre]

Roger, there is link to Navtex PC on the NtM thread. Not shown.

 

[tillergirl]

Roger, thanks. I have another link to a Navtex decoder which I am thinking as providing as a link but it is not giving any of the MSI that was on the VHF yesterday. The site suggests it is just picking up Niton, Ostend and Den Helder so I was wondering if 'our' area was on the other one, Cullercoats, is it?

 

[Bru]

Correct me someone if I'm wrong but isn't Navtex split into two services on different frequencies? One with the main GMDSS info and a second which in the UK is used for local area information

And if I'm not indeed mistaken, I think that the Navtex capturing Web sites only capture the primary info

 

[tillergirl]

To be honest, I am a bit flakey on it. It's electrickery init? I have a Navtex on TG but it's single frequency (reflecting its age) and frankly I am not sure what it has collected this year!

When the second edition comes out, I was going to upgrade the web site with a live data section providing links to the weather buoys and I thought a link to a Navtex Decoder site might be useful as well and get round the issue of me collecting data weekly from the CG when it can change day by day.

By the way a bit of scary stuff in the Channel:

50°39.31'N, 000°09.94'W
ZCZC EA68
WZ 1380
ENGLISH CHANNEL. BRIGHTON SOUTHWARDS. ABANDONED TRAWLS AND 550M OF WIRE MARKED BY UNLIT FLOATS REPORTED 50-39.31N 000-09.94W.
NNNN

52°23.14'N, 002°46.09'E
ZCZC EA70
NAVAREA I 323
ENGLAND, SOUTH-EAST COAST. LOWESTOFT EASTWARDS. CHART BA 1504 (INT 1510).
UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE REPORTED ON SEABED 52-23.14N 002- 46.09E.
NNNN

53°32.7'N, 005°19.2'E
ZCZC PA31
NETHERLANDS COASTGUARD
NAVIGATIONAL WARNING NR. 31 261848 UTC OCT
TERSCHELLING - GERMAN BIGHT TSS
4 CONTAINERS LOST IN VICINITY 53-32.7N 005-19.2E AT 220600 UTC OCT
POSSIBLY SUNK
6 CONTAINERS REPORTED ADRIFT IN VICINITY OF 53-44.7N 006-18.3E AT
220927 UTC OCT AND POSSIBLY SUNK

NNNN

 

[MoodySabre]

It's the stuff you don't know that will catch you out. Scary indeed.