Downloading Waypoints To A Personal Computer - NorthStar MX500 Operator's & Installation Manual

Operator's Manual
The CFG1 NMEA out WPL has a special "Send All" option. Select-
ing this feature will send all the waypoints in the Waypoint Bank
once independent of the WPL sentence setup as ON or OFF. This
format does not strictly conform to the NMEA 0183 standard, and
may not work with all equipment. It is provided for your use to store
data on a PC using normal ASCII text editors.
WPL can be sent as version 1.5, 2.0 or 2.1.
field#:
$GPWPL,llll.ll,a,yyyyy.yy,a,cccc xxxxxxxxxxzzzzzzzzzz*hh <CR><LF>
explanation / actual use:
2 & 3: Waypoint Latitude, North or South, N/S number of
4 & 5: Waypoint longitude, East or West, E/W number of
6.
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Downloading Waypoints to a Personal Computer

You can use any terminal or communications program to download
or upload waypoints and routes to or from the CDU and a PC.
Set the PC to:
When sending data to the CDU, it must be sent in block form, fol-
lowed by (with an appended) CR (carriage return) and LF (line feed).
Normal communications programs, like Windows XP Hyper Termi-
nal, are sufficient to get the job done.
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2 3 4 5
decimals can be set to 2, 3, 4 or 5 (default 2).
decimals can be set to 2, 3, 4 or 5 (default 2).
Waypoint identifier; 4 place numeric waypoint number, fol-
lowed by 1 space, followed by 10 characters for the top line
of the description, followed by 10 characters for the bottom
line of the description. When this field is output, you may
see spaces between the xxx and zzz. These are "fill charac-
ters" and are necessary to fulfill the 10 character count to
maintain character placement when read back into the CDU.
Checksum can be set on or off (default on).
4800 baud
1 stop bit
no flow control
6
8 bits
no parity
Waypoint
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Version 3.0