Furuno FAR-3320W Installation Manual page 134

APPENDIX 3 DIGITAL INTERFACE
ALF - Alert sentence
$**ALF,x,x,x,hhmmss.ss,a,a,a,aaa,x.x,x.x,x.x,x,c--c,*hh<CR><LF>
1 2 3 4
1. Total number of ALF sentences this message (1, 2)
2. Sentence number (1, 2)
3. Sequential message identifier (0 to 9)
4. Time of last change (hh=00 to 23, mm=00 to 59, ss.ss=00.00 to 60.99, null)
5. Alert category (A=Alert category A, B=Alert category B, C=Alert
category C, null)
6. Alert priority (A=Alarm, W=Warning, C=Caution, null when #2 is 2)
7. Alert state (V=Not ACKed, S=Silence, A=ACked, O/U=Resolved, Not ACKed,
N=Normal state, null when #2 is 2)
8. Manufacturer mnemonic code (FEC, null)
9. Alert identifier (999 or 10001 to 10999)
10. Alert instance (1 to 999999, null)
11. Revision counter (1 to 99)
12. Escalation counter (0 to 2)
13. Alert text (max. 18 characters)
ARC - Alert command refused
$**ARC,hhmmss.ss,aaa,x.x,x.x,c*hh<CR><LF>
1 2 3 4 5
1. Release time of the alert command refused (hh: 00 to 23, mm: 00 to 59,
ss.ss: 00.00 to 60.99)
2. Used for proprietary alerts, defined by the manufacturer (FEC, null)
3. The alert identifier (1 to 999 or 10001 to 10999)
4. The alert instance (1 to 999999, null)
5. Refused alert command (A=acknowledge, Q=request/repeat information, O=responsibility transfer,
S=silence)
BBM - UAIS broadcast binary message
$**BBM,x,x,x,x,xx,s--s,x,*hh<CR><LF>
12 3 4 5 6 7
1. Total number of sentences needed to transfer the message (1 - 9)
2. Sentence number (1 - 9)
3. Sequential Message identifier (0 - 9)
4. AIS channel for broadcast of the radio message (0 - 3)
5. ITU-R M.1371 message ID (8 or 14)
6. Encapsulated data (1 - 63 bytes)
7. Number of fill-bits, 0 to 5
EVE - General event message
$ **EVE,hhmmss.ss,c--c,c--c*hh <CR><LF>
1
1. Event time (000000.00 - 235960.99)
2. Tag code used for identification of source of event (RA0001 - RA0010, EI0001 - EI0016,
IN0001 - IN0016, II0001 - II0016)
3. Event description (OPERATION)
Note: This sentence is output after input has been detected from either the trackball or the key-
board.
AP-14
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