Specifications

BATS AND PORTABLE BATS OPERATION
3-99
3.7.2.9 “NCSC” DATA OUTPUT FORMAT
Applicable To: (Models 4410C-V1302)
Message Name: NCSC
TRACKING DATA MESSAGE FOR FORMAT “NCSC”
BYTE
LENGTH
DATA WORD
REPRESENTATION
RANGE
UNITS
1
1
START OF TEXT
ASCII START OF TEXT CHARACTER, 02h
N/A
2
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
3
1
TARGET NUMBER
ASCII
1-9
N/A
4
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
5-6
2
HOURS
ASCII
00-23
HOURS
7
1
COLON
ASCII COLON CHARACTER
N/A
8-9
2
MINUTES
ASCII
00-59
MINUTES
10
1
COLON
ASCII COLON CHARACTER
N/A
11-12
2
SECONDS
ASCII
00-59
SECONDS
13
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
14-18
5
COMPASS HEADING
ASCII
0.0-359.0
DEGREES
19
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
20-24
5
TARGET BEARING
ASCII
0.0-359.9
DEGREES
25
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
26-32
7
SLANT RANGE
ASCII
0.0-10000.0
METERS
1
23
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
34-41
8
X
ASCII
+/- 10000.0
METERS
1
42
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
43-50
8
Y
ASCII
+/- 10000.0
METERS
1
52
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
53-59
7
Z
ASCII
0.0-10000.0
METERS
1
60
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
60-67
8
TELEMETRY
ASCII
+/- 99999.9
UNITS
68
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
69-70
2
WARNING AND ERROR
CODE
ASCII
Null-99
2
N/A
71
1
SPACE
ASCII SPACE CHARACTER
N/A
72-73
2
CHECKSUM
16-BIT BINARY SUM OF BYTES
00-FF
N/A
74
1
CARRIAGE RETURN
ASCII CARRIAGE RETURN CHARACTER
N/A
75
1
LINEFEED
ASCII LINEFEED CHARACTER
N/A
NOTE 1: The Slant Range X,Y & Z data can either be in meters, yards or feet. See SYS-
TEM/RS232 UNITS. . Leading zeroes following the ones digit are output, maintaining
a fixed field length.
NOTE 2: Error Code 0 = Null Character
Example:
TG TIME HDG BRG SR X Y Z TEL EC CS
 1 10:28:31 210.7 00009.5 -00004.6 -00007.8 00002.0 000000.0 56 CS
The ASCII Start Of Text Character, “”, is equal to 2 decimal or 02 hexadecimal. If a nu-
meric field has more bytes than required to represent the ASCII number then leading zeroes
are inserted in the data string. If the heading is not enabled the data field is filled with
spaces.