6. DATA TRANSFER

Route data menu

$PFEC, GPrtc, xx, c----c <CR><LF>

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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 the 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

$GPRTE, x, x, a, ccc, c

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c, c----

c, ... , c c <CR><LF>----

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2

3

4

 

5

 

6

 

12

 

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 <CR><LF>

End of sentence

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