R5 SOLID AIS System
INTERPRETATION OF INPUT SENTENCES
7000 118-200, C2 Page 67
Age of differential
corrections
Differential reference
station ID
8.1.6 HDT - Heading, True
The use of this sentence is talker identifier dependent.
$--HDT,x.x,T
NOTE: HDT input must be sent at least every 3 seconds for
the R5 SOLID to calculate ROT from the HDT input.
8.1.7 OSD – Own ship data
$--OSD,x.x,A,x.x,a,x.x,a,x.x,x.x,a
Used if heading status is ‘A’
Vessel course, degrees true
Used to convert SOG to knots
8.1.8 RMC – Recommended minimum specific GNSS data
$--RMC,hhmmss.ss,A,llll.ll,a,yyyy.yy,a,x.x,x.x,xxxxxx,x.x,a,a
UTC Second is used to indicate
Time Stamp
Course over ground, degrees
true
NULL -> Message is ignored
A -> Position with low accuracy
D -> Position with high
accuracy
E -> Dead Reckoning Mode with
Low accuracy
M -> Manual Mode with low
accuracy
OTHER -> No Position
SOG and COG are used if both COG reference and SOG reference are set to either: B, P, R