WPL - Waypoint with Symbols & Description -
NMEA 0183 Expanded:
Latitude and Longitude of specified waypoint. The con-
tent of this sentence will normally be the position of the
next waypoint in the route.
The CFG1 NMEA out WPL has a special “Send All” option.
Selecting this feature will send all the waypoints in the
Waypoint Bank once independent of the WPL sentence
setup as ON or OFF. This format does not strictly con-
form to the NMEA 0183 standard, and may not work with
all equipment. It is provided for your use to store data on
a PC using normal ASCII text editors.
WPL can be sent as version 1.5, 2.0 or 2.1.
field#: 2 3 4 5 6 7
$GPWPL,llll.ll,a,yyyyy.yy,a,cccc xxxxxxxxxxzzzzzzzzzz*hh <CR><LF>
explanation / actual use:
2 & 3: Waypoint Latitude, North or South, N/S number of
decimals can be set to 2, 3, 4 or 5 (default 2).
4 & 5: Waypoint longitude, East or West, E/W number of
decimals can be set to 2, 3, 4 or 5 (default 2).
6. Waypoint identifier; 4 place numeric waypoint
number, followed by 1 space, followed by 10
characters for the top line of the description, fol-
lowed by 10 characters for the bottom line of the
description. When this field is output, you may
see spaces between the xxx and zzz. These are
“fill characters” and are necessary to fulfill the 10
character count to maintain character placement
when read back into the CDU.
7: Checksum can be set on or off (default on).
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