This is a description of the actual sentence.
RMC Sentence
(Recommended Minimum Specific GPS Data)
The RMC sentence identifies the UTC time, status, latitude,
longitude, speed over ground (SOG), date, and magnetic variation of
the position fix. The sentence structure is shown below:
$GPRMC,184804.00,A,3723.476543,N,12202.2397
45,W,000.0,0.0,051196,15.6,E*7C
Table D-13 describes the RMC sentence fields.
Table D-13 RMC Sentence Fields
Field Description
1 Time: UTC time of the position fix in hhmmss.ss format
2 Status
A: Valid
V: Navigation Receiver Warning (V is output whenever
the receiver suspects something is wrong)
3 Latitude coordinate (the number of decimal places, 0?7, is
programmable and determined by the numeric precision
selected in TSIP Talker for a RMC sentence)
4 Latitude direction: N = North, S = South
5 Longitude coordinate (the number of decimal places, 0?7,
is programmable and determined by the numeric precision
selected in TSIP Talker for a RMC sentence)
6 Longitude direction
W: West
E: East
7 Speed Over Ground (SOG) in knots (0?3 decimal places)
8 Track Made Good, True, in degrees
9 Date in dd/mm/yy format
10 Magnetic Variation in degrees
D-18 AgGPS 124/132 Operation Manual
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11 Direction of magnetic variation
E: Easterly variation from True course (subtracts from
True course)
W: Westerly variation from True course (adds to True
course)
12 Mode Indication
A: Autonomous
D: Differential
N: Data not valid