New vendor awarded $8.5 million to service Coast Guard’s failing VHF sites
The U.S. Coast Guard says VHF communications remains limited across Alaska. The federal government has changed vendors to service the remote relay towers.
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Coast Guard’s VHF signal down for much of coastal Alaska
Mariners in distress are without a decades-old means of contacting the Coast Guard in much of coastal Alaska. The federal search and rescue agency says its VHF signal is down, making communication on Channel 16 unreliable. The issue had been going on all summer and there’s no solution in sight.
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