Notice to Mariners No 20 of 2020 (Temporary) (Cancelled 10 August 2020)

Monday, 3 August 2020

HARBORS AND NAVIGATION ACT 1993

SOUTH AUSTRALIA – EYRE PENINSULA – EMERGENCY MARINE RADIO OUTAGES WEST AND EAST OF WHYALLA

Mariners are advised that there will be several outages affecting the Emergency Marine Radio Network on Thursday 6^th August and Friday 7^th August 2020.

The details of the outages are as follows:

Thursday 6^th August 13:00-17:00hrs: All Emergency Marine Radio Sites west of Whyalla

Friday 7^th August 10:00-13:00hrs: All Emergency Marine Radio Sites East of Whyalla

Friday 7^th August 13:00-15:00hrs: All Emergency Marine Radio Sites West of Whyalla

These are outage windows, actual outage durations may vary but they will fall within outage windows.

The outages are required to move the Marine Radio Network onto new technology (Thursday 6^th August) and to update operating firmware on SAGRN inter-site radio bearers (Friday 7^th August).

Mariners are advised to navigate with caution in the area.

GORDON PANTON

Manager Marine Safety and Compliance

Department for Infrastructure and Transport

3 August 2020

DPTI 2017/02277/01