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A NMEA-0183 Output
176 Trimble R7/R8 GPS Receiver User Guide
TrimbleR7/R8 GPS Receiver Operation
Vector Information
An example of the PTNL,VGK message string is shown below.
Table A.12 describes the message fields.
$PTNL,VGK,160159.00,010997,-0000.161,
00009.985,-0000.002,3,07,1,4,M*0B
Table A.12 PTNL,VGK message fields
Field Meaning
1 UTC of vector in hhmmss.ss format
2 Date in mmddyy format
3 East component of vector, in meters
4 North component of vector, in meters
5 Up component of vector, in meters
6 GPS quality indicator:
7 Number of satellites if fix solution
8DOP of fix
9
Vector components are in meters