[time-nuts] Magellan ASCII messages

bg at lysator.liu.se bg at lysator.liu.se
Sat Jan 20 08:08:12 EST 2007


On Sat, January 20, 2007 4:16, Hal Murray said:
>
>> I have discovered that the receiver, on one of its ports (the aux
>> port), is putting out Magellan ASCII strings prefixed with $PMGLK.
>
> Looks like NMEA stuff.
>
> I haven't found the NMEA specs on line.  Looks like they (nmea.org) want
> BIG$
> for it.  I have found various pieces in specs from various manufacturers
> that
> use it.
>
> I think the PM is either a manufacturer code or a source/dest tag.

Is PM messages not short for Proprietary Message? Ie its not documented by
the NMEA, and you need the manufacturer documentation to know whats in
that string.

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   Björn





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