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AIS vessel PILOTTENDER DOESE - show graphs
Callsign: DFQA
MMSI number: 211301380
IMO number: 9199933
Navigational status: Under way (engine) (0)
Vessel class: Pilot (50)
Destination: ELBE RANGE PILOT
Location: 53°59.83' N 8°12.76' E - locator JO43CX59MH - show map
29.5 km Southeast bearing 134° from Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [?]
30.0 km Northeast bearing 43° from Wangerooge, Lower Saxony, Germany
109.7 km North bearing 339° from Bremen, Bremen, Germany
127.4 km Northwest bearing 294° from Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Last position: 2025-12-27 07:49:34 UTC (23d 44m ago)
2025-12-27 08:49:34 CET local time at Helgoland, Germany [?]
Course: 246° – heading 58°
Speed: 2 km/h
Dimensions: length 25 m width 13 m draught 3.0 m
Last path: DFQA>ais via pa2dx
Positions stored: 76096
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This page shows real-time information collected from the Automatic Position Reporting System Internet network (APRS-IS). APRS is used by amateur (ham) radio operators to transmit real-time position information, weather data, telemetry and messages over the radio. A vehicle equipped with a GPS receiver, a VHF transmitter or HF transceiver and a small computer device called a tracker transmits it's location, speed and course in a small data packet, which is then received by a nearby iGate receiving site which forwards the packet on the Internet. Systems connected to the Internet can send information on the APRS-IS without a radio transmitter, or collect and display information transmitted anywhere in the world.
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