NMEA-0183 message: PNTL,EVT

Event marker data

The EVT message, generates a sentence containing external event marker data.

Format:

$PTNL,EVT,hhmmss.ssssss,E,NNNNNN,WWWW,D,OO,*

Example:

Some examples of the EVT message string are:

$PTNL,EVT,221212.000008,1,5026,1893,1,17*4F

$PTNL,EVT,221213.000008,1,5027,1893,1,17*4F

PTNL,EVT message fields

Field

Meaning

0

Talker ID $PTNL

1

Message ID EVT

2

Event time. UTC time of event in format hhmmss.ssssss : Hours,Minutes,Seconds. Resolved microseconds

3

Port number. Port event markers receiver: "1" or "2" (optional), if two ports are available.

4

NNNNNN. Incremental number of events on each independent port.

5

WWWW. Week number of event (since 06 January 1980).

6

Day of week. Days denoted 0 = Sunday…6 = Saturday.

7

Leap second. UTC Leap Second offset from GPS time. Currently 18 seconds as of 07 July 2017.

8

The checksum data, always begins with *