Water levels
Introduction/Additional information:
This message should be used to inform skippers about actual water levels in their area. It is additional short term information to the water levels distributed via Notices to Skippers. The update rate shall be defined by the competent authority. It is possible to transmit the water levels of more than 4 gauges using multiple messages. Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine Vessel Tracking and Tracing Standard for Inland Waterways Edition 1.01 – 10.10.2007 48/62
This message should be sent by base stations only, to give water level information to all vessels in a certain area. The message should be sent with binary message 8 at regular intervals.
Registrant:
EU
DAC:
200
FI:
24
State:
in force
Number of slots (max):
1
Permitted as from:
10/10/2007
Details:
| Parameter | Bit | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Message ID | 6 | Identifier for Message 8; always 8 |
| Repeat Indicator | 2 | Used by the repeater to indicate how many times a message has been repeated. Default = 0 3 = do not repeat any more |
| Source ID | 30 | MMSI number |
| Spare | 2 | Not used, should be set to zero. Reserved for future use. |
| Application Identifier | 16 | As described in Table 2,6 |
| UN country code | 12 | UN country code using 2*6-Bit ASCII characters according to ERI specification |
| Gauge ID | 11 | National unique ID of gauge *1 1-2047, 0 = default = unknown |
| Water level | 14 | Bit 0: 0 = negative value, 1 = positive value Bits 1-11: 1-8191, in 1/100m, 0 = unknown = default *2 |
| Gauge ID | 11 | National unique ID of gauge *1 1-2047, 0 = default = unknown |
| Water level | 14 | Bit 0: 0 = negative value, 1 = positive value Bits 1-11: 1-8191, in 1/100m, 0 = unknown = default *2 |
| Gauge ID | 11 | National unique ID of gauge *1 1-2047, 0 = default = unknown |
| Water level | 14 | Bit 0: 0 = negative value, 1 = positive value Bits 1-11: 1-8191, in 1/100m, 0 = unknown = default *2 |
| Gauge ID | 11 | National unique ID of gauge *1 1-2047, 0 = default = unknown |
| Water level | 14 | Bit 0: 0 = negative value, 1 = positive value Bits 1-11: 1-8191, in 1/100m, 0 = unknown = default *2 |
| 168 | occupies 1 slot |