The Coast Guard may not be able to pick up calls for distress on VHF channel 16 in certain parts of Southern Southeast.
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VHF outages are less common in Southeast Alaska this year, Coast Guard says
The U.S. Coast Guard reports intermittent VHF outages on the emergency Channel 16 but says the situation has improved in the past two years.
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Coast Guard says area-wide VHF outages mostly resolved
A technical breakdown causing recent outages to the Coast Guard’s emergency VHF radio towers across Southeast Alaska has been fixed, the Coast Guard says.
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Signal down for Coast Guard VHF stations in Southeast Alaska
The outage has affected areas including the Gulf of Alaska south of Yakutat, Hoonah Sound, Cross Sound and the west side of Prince of Wales Island.
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