DR + GPS
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Type Symbol Definition
Numeric Value Fields
Variable x.x
Variable length integer or floating numeric field. Optional
leading and trailing zeros. The decimal point and
associated decimal-fraction are optional if full resolution
is not required (example: 73.10=73.1=073.1=73).
Fixed HEX hh Fixed length HEX numbers only, MSB on the left
Information Fields
Fixed Alpha aa Fixed length field of upper-case or lower-case alpha
characters.
Fixed
Number
xx Fixed length field of numeric characters
NOTE Spaces are only be used in variable text fields.
Units of measure fields are appropriate characters from the Symbol
column unless a specified unit of measure is indicated.
Fixed length field definitions show the actual number of characters. For
example, a field defined to have a fixed length of 5 HEX characters is
represented as hhhhh between delimiters in a sentence definition.