Seafood

NEWS
NEWS
Maritime
radio channels
changes
New Zealand, along with a number of
other countries, is required to change
some maritime VHF repeater channels
to make space for newly allocated
international services for ship tracking
and data services.
On October 1, New Zealand will be
moving a few private VHF repeater
services, most Coastguard VHF repeater
services, and all NowCasting weather
services. An updated radio handbook
and frequency stickers will be available
through retune.co.nz from August 1.
Although some maritime channels
will be changing, the existing marine
Channel 16 used for safety, distress and
calling purposes will not change.
Current radios will be able to access
all the available channels after the
changes take place. However, you may
need to switch to a new channel number
to continue to access your local repeater
or listen to the weather forecast.
The biggest change is the new
four digit maritime channels for the
Coastguard and privately provided
weather service. These four-digit
channel numbers are allocated
internationally to new maritime
channels. New Zealand will be using
some of these new four-digit maritime
channels for the Coastguard and
privately provided weather information
services.
Users will still be able to listen to the
weather channels on your current VHF
set by dropping the first two digits and
using the last two digits of the fourdigit
channel number. For example, in
the Waitemata Harbour where the new
weather channel number is 2019, they
will only need to use channel 19.
For more information go to retune.
co.nz
Changes are happening on 1 October
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