Chesapeake Times, Vol 2 | July 2020 NMEA 0183 sentences are text strings that conform to the NMEA 0183 format specification. These are most commonly used in sending data over digital serial protocol links. These sentences are human readable and can be recognized easily because they start with a “$” character and end with a “*” character. The sentences can be received by a computer and logged to a text file using anything from a simple terminal program to CTI’s Single Beam server. Here is a sample set of sentences: $GPRMC,161856.640,A,1759.40954,S, 12212.67976,E,2.000,14.7,100720,0.0,E,A*2E$GPDPT,17.8,0.0*69$GPZDA,161856.64,10,07,2020,0,0*6F The sample was generated by CTI’s NMEAWiz software. It is capable of simulating a …