Proprietary Telegrams And Formats; Simrad Ek500 Depth - Simrad ES70 - REFERENCE MANUAL REV A Reference Manual

5 = speed over ground, knots, resolution 0.1
z.z,N
6 = speed over ground, km/hr, resolution 0.1
g.g,K
7 = mode indicator
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Proprietary telegrams and formats

The following proprietary Simrad telegrams are supported by the ES70 Fish finding
echo sounder.
Topics
• Simrad EK500 Depth on page 195
• Simrad EM Attitude 1000 on page 196
• Simrad EM Attitude 3000 on page 197
• DBS Depth of trawl below surface on page 198
• HFB Trawl headrope to footrope and bottom on page 199
• PSIMP.D PI Sensor data on page 199
• PSIMDHB Bottom hardness and biomass on page 200
• Sounder/TSS1 Motion protocol on page 201
• Simrad ATS Annotation on page 202
Related topics
• Navigation on page 140
• Depth Output on page 147

Simrad EK500 Depth

This proprietary Kongsberg Maritime telegram was defined for the EK500 scientific echo
sounder. It provides the current depth from three channels, as well as the bottom surface
backscattering strength and the athwartships bottom slope. This telegram has be defined
for output on either a serial line or a local area network Ethernet connection.
Serial line format
D#,hhmmsstt,x.x,y.y,t,s.s<CR><LF>
Serial line format description
1 = identifier, can be
D#
2 = current time; hour, minute, second and hundredth of second
hhmmsstt
3 = detected bottom depth in meters
x.x
= bottom surface backscattering strength in dB
4
y.y
5 = transducer number
t
= athwartships bottom slope in degrees
6
s,s
338106/A
, or for channels 1, 2 or 3.
D1 D2 D3
Telegram formats
195