Installation manual
Telegramformats
Proprietarytelegramsandformats
ThefollowingproprietarySimradtelegramsaresupportedbytheES70Fishnding
echosounder.
Topics
•SimradEK500Depthonpage167
•SimradEMAttitude1000onpage168
•SimradEMAttitude3000onpage169
•DBSDepthoftrawlbelowsurfaceonpage170
•HFBTrawlheadropetofootropeandbottomonpage170
•PSIMP .DPISensordataonpage171
•PSIMDHBBottomhardnessandbiomassonpage172
•Sounder/TSS1Motionprotocolonpage173
•SimradATSAnnotationonpage174
SimradEK500Depth
ThisproprietarySimradtelegramwasdenedfortheEK500scienticechosounder.
Itprovidesthecurrentdepthfromthreechannels,aswellasthebottomsurface
backscatteringstrengthandtheathwartshipsbottomslope.Thistelegramhasbedened
foroutputoneitheraseriallineoralocalareanetworkEthernetconnection.
Seriallineformat
D#,hhmmsstt,x.x,y.y,t,s.s<CR><LF>
Seriallineformatdescription
1D#=identier,canbeD1,D2orD3forchannels1,2or3.
2hhmmsstt=currenttime;hour,minute,secondandhundredthofsecond
3x.x=detectedbottomdepthinmeters
4y.y=bottomsurfacebackscatteringstrengthindB
5t=transducernumber
6s,s=athwartshipsbottomslopeindegrees
Ethernetformat
TheEthernetlineoutputisspeciedusinga“C”programminglanguagestructure.Note
thatthisformatdoesnotincludecarriagereturnandlinefeedcharactersattheendof
thetelegram.
structDepth{
charHeader[2];
charSeparator1[1];
charTime[8];
charSeparator1[2];
floatDepth[4];
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