GPS 16x TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Garmin International, Inc. 1200 E. 151 Street Olathe, KS 66062 USA 190-00228-08 Revision C October 2011...
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2.2 GPS 16x Wiring Diagrams ..........................8 3 Mechanical Characteristics & Mounting................9 3.1 GPS 16x Flush Mount ............................. 9 3.2 GPS 16x Optional Magnetic Mount ......................10 4 Software Interface ........................11 4.1 Received NMEA 0183 Sentences ......................... 11 4.1.1 Almanac Information (ALM) ..........................11 4.1.2 Sensor Initialization Information (PGRMI) ......................
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Figure 2: PDA Serial Port Interconnection ........................8 Figure 3: Basic NMEA Device Interconnection ......................8 Figure 4: GPS 16x Flush Mount Dimensions ........................ 9 Figure 5: Optional GPS 16x Magnetic Mount ......................10 Table 2: NMEA 0183 Output Sentence Order and Size ....................15 Table 3: Characters per Second for Available Baud Rates ..................
Use these products at your own risk. To reduce the risk, carefully review and understand all aspects of these Technical Specifications before using the GPS 16x. When in actual use, carefully compare indications from the GPS to all available navigation sources including the information from other NAVAIDs, visual sightings, charts, etc.
1.2 LIMITED WARRANTY This Garmin product is warranted to be free from defects in materials or workmanship for one year from the date of purchase. Within this period, Garmin will, at its sole option, repair or replace any components that fail in normal use.
Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) system applications. Based on the proven technology found in other Garmin GPS receivers, the GPS 16x tracks multiple satellites at a time while providing fast time-to- first-fix, one-second navigation updates, and low power consumption. This generation of GPS sensors includes the capability of FAA Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) differential GPS.
4.5 Received RTCM Data for details). Violet PORT 2 Second Serial Asynchronous Output, electrically identical to PORT 1 DATA DATA OUT. Reserved for future use. Table 1: GPS 16x Wire Pinout 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 7...
3.2 GPS 16x OPTIONAL MAGNETIC MOUNT Magnetic Mount M4 Flat Head Screws (3 each) Figure 5: Optional GPS 16x Magnetic Mount 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 10...
SOFTWARE INTERFACE The GPS 16x series products interface protocol design on COM1 is based on the National Marine Electronics Association’s NMEA 0183 ASCII interface specification. The COM2 port can receive differential GPS (DGPS) correction data using the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services’ RTCM SC-104 standard. These standards are fully defined in NMEA 0183, Version 3.0 (copies may be obtained from NMEA,...
All configuration changes take affect after receipt of a valid value except baud rate and PPS mode. Baud rate and PPS mode changes take effect on the next power cycle or an external reset event. 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 12...
If either the target sentence mode field or the target sentence description field is not valid, the PGRMO sentence will have no effect. $PGRMO,GPALM,1 will cause the GPS sensor to transmit all stored almanac information. All other NMEA 0183 sentence transmission will be suspended temporarily. 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 13...
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$PGRMO,,G will cause the COM port to change to Garmin Data Transfer format for the duration of the power cycle. You must enable Garmin Data Transfer format to update the GPS 16x series products. 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C...
Regardless of the selected baud rate, the information transmitted by the GPS sensor is referenced to the one-pulse- per-second output pulse immediately preceding the GPRMC sentence, or whichever sentence is output first in the burst (see Table 2 above). 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 15...
Differential GPS (RTCM SC-104) data age, number of seconds since last valid RTCM transmission (null if not an RTCM DGPS fix) <12> Differential Reference Station ID, 0000 to 1023 (leading zeros will be transmitted, null if not an RTCM DGPS fix) 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 16...
Speed over ground, 0000.0 to 1851.8 kilometers per hour (leading zeros will be transmitted) <5> Mode indicator (only output if NMEA 0183 version 2.30 active), A = Autonomous, D = Differential, E = Estimated, N = Data not valid 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 17...
Garmin Unit ID (Predefined and unique to each device) 4.2.13 Map Datum (PGRMM) The Garmin Proprietary sentence $PGRMM gives the name of the map datum currently in use by the GPS sensor. This information is used by the Garmin MapSource real-time plotting application.
4.5 RECEIVED RTCM DATA Position accuracy of less than 5 meters can be achieved with the GPS 16x series products by using Differential GPS (DGPS) real-time pseudo-range correction data in RTCM SC-104 format, with message types 1, 2, 3, 7, and 9.
APPENDIX A: EARTH DATUMS The following is a list of the Garmin GPS 16x Earth datum indices and the corresponding earth datum name (including the area of application): ADINDAN - Ethiopia, Mali, Senegal, Sudan AFGOOYE - Somalia AIN EL ABD 1970 - Bahrain Island, Saudi Arabia...
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NAHRWAN - Masirah Island (Oman) NAHRWAN - Saudi Arabia NAHRWAN - United Arab Emirates OBSERVATORIO 1966 - Corvo and Flores Islands (Azores) OLD EGYPTIAN - Egypt OLD HAWAIIAN - Mean Value OMAN - Oman 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 21...
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WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1972 WORLD GEODETIC SYSTEM 1984 ZANDERIJ - Surinam CH-1903 - Switzerland Hu - Tzu - Shan Indonesia 74 Austria Potsdam Taiwan - modified Hu-Tzu-Shan GDA - Geocentric Datum of Australia Dutch 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 22...
(03 hex). Note: If RTCM-104 differential data is sent to the GPS sensor, the board will reset the Garmin Binary Output Data baud rate to the same baud rate used for RTCM-104 data. If the differential inputs are used on the GPS sensor, the RTCM-104 data must be sent to the GPS sensor at 9600 baud (preferred) or 4800 baud.
(mean sea level) (meters) leap_sec UTC leap seconds grmn_days Garmin days (days since December 31, 1989) Satellite Data Record The satellite data has a record ID of 0x72 with 84 (0x54) data bytes. The data bytes contain data for 12 satellites as described below.
To download the ephemeris data, you must first command the unit to output information in Garmin Binary Format (Garmin mode) instead of the default NMEA output format. To put the unit in Garmin mode, connect to the unit using a terminal program and send the following NMEA sentence: $PGRMO,,G*hh<CR><LF>...
0x10 Record ID IOP_ACK_BYTE 0x06 Number of bytes in data SIZE 0x02 DATA 0x00 ID of packet being ACK’d IOP_RECORDS 0x1B Checksum calculation CHKSUM ---- Delimiter 0x10 End of packet 0x03 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 27...
Ephemeris Download ID IOP_DOWN_LOAD_EPH 0x5D DATA 0x00 Checksum calculation CHKSUM ---- Delimiter 0x10 End of packet 0x03 After properly acknowledging this packet (ACK the IOP_DL_CMPLT ID), the ephemeris download is complete. 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 30...
Selecting a Model Double-click SNSRCFG.exe. The Set Base Model to… window appears. Select the radio button next to the type of Garmin sensor you are configuring. Connecting to the Sensor After selecting the type of sensor, the following window opens. This is the Main Interface Screen for the program.
NMEA Sentence Selections (F7): Displays the NMEA Sentence Selections window. If the sentence is enabled, a check mark appears in the box to the left of the sentence name. Click the box to enable or disable to the sentence. 190-00228-08 GPS 16x Technical Specifications Rev. C Page 32...
Switch to NMEA Mode (F10): Switches the unit to NMEA Mode. The sensor must be in NMEA Mode when connected to this software. Switch to Garmin Mode (F11): Switches the unit to Garmin Mode. Update Software (F12): After you have downloaded a new software version for the sensor, you can update the sensor with the new software.