[time-nuts] Magellan ASCII messages

Bruce Lane kyrrin at bluefeathertech.com
Tue Jan 16 00:09:56 EST 2007


Fellow clock-tickers,

	I'm delving into the secrets of my Odetics 325 in an effort to understand if the GPS receiver can be replaced with something a little more modern than the Magellan OEM 5000. In the course of this investigation, I have discovered that the receiver, on one of its ports (the aux port), is putting out Magellan ASCII strings prefixed with $PMGLK.

	The main port, though it is putting out data at 9600 baud, appears to be putting out 7-bit binary data (I'm assuming that this would be Magellan binary).

	On the sending side, the Odetics sends a series of commands to the receiver at power-up, all prefixed with $PMGLI. I've not been able to find any data on these strings at all.

	Can anyone help with a message list, and/or details on Magellan binary protocol?

	Please advise. Thanks much.


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Bruce Lane, Owner & Head Hardware Heavy,
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