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Maritime Radio Frequencies

VHF Maritime Frequencies

Channel Freq Ship Freq Shore Notes
01 156.050 160.650 Public Correspondence
02 156.100 160.700 Public Correspondence
03 156.150 160.750 Public Correspondence
04 156.200 160.800 Public Correspondence
05 156.250 160.850 Public Correspondence
06 156.300   Search and Rescue
07 156.350 160.950 Public Correspondence
08 156.400   Port Operations and Commercial Operations
09 156.450   Port Operations
10 156.500   Port Operations
11 156.550   Port Operations
12 156.600   Port Operations
13 156.650   Port Operations, Distress, urgency and safety
14 156.700   Port Operations
15 156.750   Commercial Operations
16 156.800   Distress, Safety and Calling
17 156.850   Commercial Operations
18 156.900   Port Operations
20 157.000 161.600 Port Operations
21 157.050 161.650 Repeater (distress, urgency, safety and ship movement)
22 157.100 161.700 Repeater (distress, urgency, safety and ship movement)
23 157.150 161.750 Public Correspondence
24 157.200 161.800 VHF Data Exchange System *
25 157.250 161.850 VHF Data Exchange System *
60 156.025 160.625 Public Correspondence
61 156.075 160.675 Public Correspondence
62 156.125 160.725 Public Correspondence
63 156.175 160.775 Public Correspondence
64 156.225 160.825 Port Operations
65 156.275 160.875 Port Operations
66 156.325 160.925 Public Correspondence
67 156.375   Supplementary to Ch16 (for Distress urgency and Safety)
68 156.425   Port Operations
70 156.525   Digital Selective Calling – Distress, Safety and Calling
71 156.575   Profesional Fishing
72 156.625   Port Operations, Commercial and Non-Commercial Operations and Professional Fishing
73 156.675   Non-commercial Operations
74 156.725   Commercial Operations
75 156.775   Automatic Identification System Satellite
76 156.825   Automatic Identification System Satellite
77 156.875   Professional Fishing, Non-commercial Operations
78 156.925   Commercial Operations
79 156.975   Port Operations
80 157.025 161.625 Repeater (distress, urgency, safety and ship movement)
81 157.075 161.675 Repeater (distress, urgency, safety and ship movement) and Public Correspondence
82 157.125 161.725 Repeater (distress, urgency, safety and ship movement)
83 157.175 161.775 Public Correspondence
84 157.225 161.825 VHF Data Exchange System *
85 157.275 161.875 VHF Data Exchange System *
87 157.375   Port Operations
88 157.425   Port Operations
1019 156.950   Port Operations
1026 157.300   VHF Data Exchange System
1027 157.350   Port Operations
1028 157.400   Port Operations
1086 157.325   VHF Data Exchange System
2006 160.900   Experimental use in relation to Radiotelephony, Digital Selective Calling and Automatic Identification System
2019   161.550 Port Operations
2026   161.900 VHF Data Exchange System
2027 161.950   ASM1 Application Specific Messaging
2028 162.000   ASM2 Application Specific Messaging
2086   161.925 VHF Data Exchange System
AIS1 161.975   Automatic Identification System
AIS2 162.025   Automatic Identification System

* Channels 24, 84, 25 and 85 may be merged in order to form a unique duplex channel with a bandwidth of 100 kHz in order to operate the VDES terrestrial component described in the most recent version of Recommendation ITU-R M.209 (WRC-15) of the ITU.

HF Maritime Frequencies

Frequency Notes
4125 Continuous Watch & Distress
6215 Continuous Watch & Distress
8291 Continuous Watch & Distress

Marine Frequencies file for Chirp

This information gathered from https://www.acma.gov.au/vhf-maritime-mobile-band-channel-allocations

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