Garmin GPS 10 Deluxe, Technical Specifications

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GPS 10 Technical Specifications 

Rev. B

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APPENDIX B: BINARY PHASE OUTPUT FORMAT

In binary phase output mode, GPS 10 series products will transmit two types of packets once per second.
One record contains primarily post-process information such as position and velocity information.  The
second record contains receiver measurement information.  For the GPS 10, the records are sent at a default
baud rate of 9600 baud, 8 data bits, and no parity.  

To turn these records on, use the $PGRMC1 NMEA sentence as described in Section 3.1.4.

Refer to the 

Garmin Device Interface Specification 

for details on how to form and parse Garmin packets.

At the time of this printing, these specs are available from the technical suppport section of our Web site at

http://www.garmin.com/support/commProtocol.html

.

For the GPS 10, the two records must be enabled independently by commands to the unit. The ID of each
command should be 10 decimal to signify that the record is a command.  The data portion of the packet
should be one of the following:

Function

Command (base 10)

Position Record On

49

Position Record Off

50

Receiver Measurement Record On

110

Receiver Measurement Record Off

111

Note that the satellite data information is also enabled when the position record is enabled.  

Records sent over RS232  begin with a delimiter byte (10 hex).  The second byte identifies the record type
(33 hex for a position record, 34 hex for a receiver measurement and 72 hex for a satellite data record).
The third byte indicates the size of the data.  The fourth byte is the first byte of data.  The data is then
followed by a checksum byte, a delimiter byte (10 hex), and an end-of-transmission character (03 hex).
Additionally, any DLEs (0x10) that appear between the delimeters are escaped with a second DLE.  There
is sample code at the end of this section that will strip off the DLEs and ETXs.

RS232 Packet:

- 0x10 

(DLE is first byte)

- 0x##

(Record ID – single byte)

- 0x##

(Number of data bytes – single byte)

- data bytes

(See descriptions below)

- 0x##

(2’s complement of the arithmetic sum of the bytes between the delimiters)

- 0x10

(DLE)

- 0x03

(ETX is last byte)

USB packets contain only the record ID, size, and data payload. Refer to the 

Garmin Device Interface

Specification 

for details on how to form and parse Garmin USB packets. The document is located on the

Garmin Web site at 

http://www.garmin.com/support/ commProtocol.html.

USB Packet:
- 0x##

(Record ID – single byte)

- 0x##

(Number of data bytes – single byte)

- data bytes

(See descriptions below)

The data bytes of each packet contain the record specified by the record ID.  A description of each record
follows.