There is a Navtex transmitter at Tofino, on the wet coast of Vancouver
Island. I expect that signals from that station would be weak or
non-existent in the inside waters. I don't know how much of the data
it broadcasts would be useful in Puget Sound/Strait of Georgia.

that's kind of what I was thinking -- it seems the station locations up here are
few & far between making it near useless as the few stations cover soooo much
area.

thank you
-josh