A Guide to Marine Radio Services

Schedules for Weather Services via Voice

Broadcast Frequencies

View a map of Coastal Waters and High Seas areas, Broadcast Stations and Coverage 

Marine Radio Coastal Waters Forecasts and Warnings Schedule

VMC and VMW voice broadcast schedules provide for bulletins of Warnings broadcast on the hour in WST and EST (on the half hour CST).  Weather forecasts for Coastal Waters and High Seas followed by coastal observations are broadcast using a program that is repeated every four hours. The program contains up-to-date forecasts, warnings and coastal observations.

Location	Station	Scheduled Broadcast times
Warnings for QLD, NSW, VIC, TAS and SA	VMC	Every hour commencing 0000 EST (0030 CST)
Warnings for QLD Gulf, NT, WA and SA	VMW	Every hour commencing 0000 WST (0030 CST)
Special Announcements	VMW/VMC	Five minutes to every hour (25 minutes after the hour CST)
Forecasts for Queensland	VMC	0330, 0730, 1130, 1530, 1930, 2330 EST
Forecasts for Queensland Gulf Waters	VMW	0030, 0430, 0830, 1230, 1630, 2030 EST
Forecasts for New South Wales	VMC	0130, 0530, 0930, 1330, 1730, 2130 EST
Forecasts for Victoria	VMC	0130, 0530, 0930, 1330, 1730, 2130 EST
Forecasts for Tasmania	VMC	0230, 0630, 1030, 1430, 1830, 2230 EST
Forecasts for South Australia	VMC	0200, 0600, 1000, 1400, 1800, 2200 CST
	VMW	0300, 0700, 1100, 1500, 1900, 2300 CST
Forecasts for Western Australia	VMW	0030, 0430, 0830, 1230, 1630, 2030 WST
Forecasts for Northern Territory	VMW	0300, 0700, 1100, 1500, 1900, 2300 CST
Northern Territory coast east of Cape Don	VMC	0300, 0700, 1100, 1500, 1900, 2300 CST

Marine Radio High Seas Forecasts and Warnings Schedule

Coastal Reports

A comprehensive list of current locations of coastal reports and broadcast times is available here. (pdf version)