Furuno GP-1850W - Manual (Page 71)

10. CUSTOMIZING YOUR UNIT
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Waypoint data format
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PFEC, GPwpl, llll.lll, a, yyyyy.yyy, a, c----c, c, c----c, A
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Waypoint data format
1: Waypoint latitude
2: N/S
3: Waypoint longitude
4: E/W
5: Waypoint name (Number of characters is
fixed to 6 and space code is placed when
the number of characters are less than
6.)
6: Waypoint color
7: Waypoint comment (1 byte for mark code
+ 13 characters of comment.)
1st byte of mark code: Fixed to ‘@’.
2nd byte of mark code: Internal mark
code. See Note 1.
8. Information of marking waypoint. Always
set to “A”.
“A”: Displayed
“V”: Not displayed
Note 1:
Following characters can be used
for comments:
_ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789&'#
=9 =: =; =< = =
=> =? =@ =A
=B =C =D =E
=F =G =H
Character available for comment
Route data menu
$GPRTE, x, x, a, ccc, c----c, c----c, ... , c----c
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Route data format
1: Number of sentences required for one
complete route data (1 to 4). See Note 2.
2: Number of sentences currently used (1 to
4)
3: Message mode (Always set to C)
4: Route No. (001 to 300, 3 digits required)
5 through 12: Waypoint name (Max. 8
names, length of each waypoint name is
fixed to 7 byte)
Note 2:
A route can may contain 35
waypoints and GPRTE sentence for
one route data may exceed 80 byte
limitation. In this case, route data is
divided into several GPRTE
sentences (Max. 4 sentences). This
value shows the number of
sentences the route data has been
divided.
Route comment data format
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$PFEC, GPrtc, xx, c----c
Route comment format
1: Route No. (01 to 200, 3 digits required)
2: Route comment (Max. 16 characters,
variable length)
The same characters of the comment for
waypoint comment can be used.
End of sentence
$PFEC, GPxfr, CTL, E
End of sentence