When distress calls near Kodiak go unheard by the Coast Guard, Juneau’s Marine Exchange comes in

For several years the U.S. Coast Guard’s emergency VHF radio system has experienced outages across Southeast and the Gulf of Alaska. There’s been progress fixing the problem, but some mariners’ distress calls are still falling through the cracks. So another entity has stepped in to help fill the communications void…

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