LEA-6 / NEO-6 - Hardware Integration Manual
GPS.G6-HW-09007-A Preliminary Design-in
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Abbreviation Description
AC Antenna Control (e.g. the antenna will be switched on/ off controlled by the GPS receiver)
SD Short Circuit Detection Enabled
SR Short Circuit Recovery Enabled
OD Open Circuit Detection Enabled
PdoS Power Down on short
Table 9: Active Antenna Supervisor Message on startup (UBX binary protocol)
To activate the antenna supervisor use the UBX-CFG-ANT message. For further information refer to the
u-blox 6 Receiver Description including Protocol Specification [3].
Similar to the antenna supervisor configuration, the status of the antenna supervisor will be reported in a NMEA
($GPTXT) or UBX (INF-NOTICE) message at start-up and on every change.
Message Description
ANTSTATUS=DONTKNOW Active antenna supervisor is not configured and deactivated.
ANTSTATUS=OK Active antenna connected and powered
ANTSTATUS=SHORT Antenna short
ANTSTATUS=OPEN Antenna not connected or antenna defective
Table 10: Active antenna supervisor message on startup (NMEA protocol)