Guidance
Safety Bulletin 25 – Furuno navigation & communication equipment - GPS week number rollover
Stand-alone Furuno GPS receivers and equipment using Furuno GPS chips, could produce data that is 19.7 years in the past, therefore generating errors in both the GPS position and date (19th May 2002).
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The Maritime & Coastguard Agency would like to make operators aware that products with Furuno Global Positioning System (GPS) chips for position or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), may produce an error on January 2nd, 2022. The problem affects products listed in Annex 1 and includes navigation and communication equipment.
Updates to this page
Published 14 December 2021