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PinPoint-E EDGE/GPRS - User Guide, version 2.32

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GPS Message Format Streams

Example taken from PinPoint-E output:

$GPRMC,173219.428,A,3505.1436,N,08037.5669,W,0.09,13.55,040403,,,*2B

Example taken from PinPoint-E output:

$GPVTG, 308.49,T,,M,0.05,N,0.1,K,*62

Units of geoidal separation, meters

M

(not applicable to the PinPoint-E)

null field

Differential reference station ID, 0000-1023

0000

Optional checksum field consisting of "*" and
two hex digits.

Represents the exclusive OR of all characters
between, but not including, the "$" and "*".

*1E

TABLE 2.

RMC - Recommended Minimum Navigation Information

Description

Field Contents

Global Positioning System (GPS)

GP

Recommended Minimum sentence C Phase

RMC

UTC (Fix taken at 17:32:19 UTC)

173219.428

Status A=Active or V=Void

(A status of V indicated the GPS has a fix that is
below an internal quality threshold, i.e. dilution
of precision is too high or an elevation mask test
failed)

A

Latitude

3505.1435

North or South

N

Longitude

08037.5669

East or West

W

Speed over ground, knots

0.09

Track angle in degrees True

13.55

Date (04th of April 2005)

040405

Magnetic Variation, degrees

null field

East or West

null field

Checksum

*2E

TABLE 3.

VTG - Vector track and Speed over the Ground

Description

Field Contents

Global Positioning System (GPS)

GP

Track made good and Ground speed

VTG

TABLE 1.

GGA - Global Positioning System Fix Data

Description Field

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