Sailor 6215 VHF DSC User & Installation Manual page 96

Glossary
N
NMEA National Marine Electronics Association, specification for
communication between marine electronic devices
P
PTT Push To Talk
PWR Power
R
RMC NMEA sentence, version of essential gps position, velocity, time
data.
U
UTC Coordinated Universal Time. The International Atomic Time (TAI)
with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for
the Earth's slowing rotation. Leap seconds are used to allow UTC
to closely track UT1, which is mean solar time at the Royal
Observatory, Greenwich.
V
VHF Very High Frequency
Z
ZDA NMEA sentence, date and time.
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