Navtex
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Technical information
- NAVTEX message format
- Start of message
- Transmitter identity (B<sub>1</sub>)
- Subject indicator character (B<sub>2</sub>)
- Serial number of message (B<sub>3</sub>, B<sub>4</sub>)
- Time of origin
- Message text
- End of message
- NAVTEX transmission schedule
- NAVTEX receivers
- Proposed termination of U.S. NAVTEX
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|A NAVTEX receiver prints an incoming message thumb|right|NAVTEX message for the Baltic Sea
NAVTEX (NAVigational TEleX), sometimes styled Navtex or NavTex, is an international automated medium frequency direct-printing service for delivery of navigational and meteorological warnings and forecasts, as well as urgent maritime safety information (MSI) to ships.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Navtex” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.