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Author Topic: Maritime HF DSC Distress Message - Man Overboard  (Read 641 times)

Offline Baba Booey

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Maritime HF DSC Distress Message - Man Overboard
« on: October 26, 2023, 0154 UTC »
ICOM 7300 / Dipole - located in Northern Virginia - decoded with YaDD.

IME: 2023-10-26 01:42:50 FREQ: 12577.0 DIST: 7785 Km
SYMB: 116 116 112 000 036 069 099 080 110 063 060 015 047 010 110 022 064 020 047 036 023 001 109 127 050 127 127
 FMT: ALL
 CAT: DIS
  TO: ALL SHIPS
FROM: COAST,003669998,USA,COMMSTA New Orleans
 TC1: DISTRESS ACK
 TC2: --
FREQ: --
 POS: --
 EOS: EOS
cECC: 50 OK
DATA: TIME: 23:01 POSITION: 26.42°S 047.36°E NATURE: Man overboard
      DISTR.MMSI: SHIP,636015471,??? COM: J3E TP

ICOM 7300 - DIPOLE
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Offline dumbo

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Re: Maritime HF DSC Distress Message - Man Overboard
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2024, 0221 UTC »
In case you didn’t know, you can go to MarineTraffic.com, enter MMSN (the long number after SHIP in your message) and see where the ship is located.