AIS PGN 129038/39 Communication State Issue
lsoltero opened this issue · 0 comments
As it turns out the 19 bit Communication State can be important to application developers since for AIS types 1,2 (Class A) and 18 (Class B non "CS") the UTC Hour:Min for the position report is encoded in it.
In SetN2K... routines the default value of 0x07ffff seems incorrect.
For Class B "CS" transmissions where communication state selector flag is 1 the default value must be
1100000000000000110.
For Type 18 Class B (non "CS") and for Type 1, 2 the value should be ??? 0x0 seems to be a better default option although not clear from the docs.
For type 3 again 0x0 seems to a better option.
Type 1, 2, and 18 ( non CS) use SOTDMA transmissions and tables 18 and 19 apply for Communication State
type 3 uses ITDMA and table 20 applies.
Here is a link to the documentation.
https://www.itu.int/dms_pubrec/itu-r/rec/m/R-REC-M.1371-5-201402-I!!PDF-E.pdf
I will be applying fixes to code and will log a pull request when ready... Just thought I would document the issue here.
--Luis