Thrane&Thrane TT-3020C, TT-3022D, TT-3028CM, TT-3022C Configuration Manual

VMS Capsat Transceiver
TT-3020C, TT-3022C, TT-3022D and
Configuration Manual
Thrane & Thrane
VMS Capsat Transceiver
TT-3020C, TT-3022C, TT-3022D and
Configuration Manual
Copyright Thrane & Thrane A/S
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Document Number TT98-112168-B. Release Date: 9. November 2000
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction......................................................................................................1-1
1.1 An introduction to terms......................................................................1-1
1.2 Short feature description .................................................................... 1-3
1.2.1 Restriction to the SOLAS Fishery........................................1-5
2 LES Interface ................................................................................................... 2.1
2.1 DNID Common Format....................................................................... 2.1
2.1.1 API Header Format.................................................................2.2
2.1.2 First part of Positioning Report............................................2.3
2.1.3 Second Part of Positioning Report......................................2.5
3 Initial setup of transceiver ............................................................................. 3-1
3.1 TT-3020C SOLAS Transceiver..........................................................3-1
3.1.1 Making a SOLAS Fishery Transceiver ................................3-1
3.1.2 Ocean Registration................................................................3-2
3.2 TT-3028CM Dual Mode Fishery Transceiver.................................. 3-3
3.2.1 Making a SOLAS Fishery Transceiver ................................3-3
3.2.2 Ocean Registration................................................................3-4
3.3 TT-3022D Fishery Transceiver.......................................................... 3-5
3.3.1 Ocean registration..................................................................3-5
3.4 TT-3022C Landmobile Transceiver.................................................3-6
3.4.1 Making a Landmobile vehicle surveillance
Transceiver..............................................................................................3-6
3.4.2 Ocean Registration................................................................3-7
4 Transceiver Configuration.............................................................................4-1
4.1 Configuring the VMS behaviour.........................................................4-1
4.1.1 Quit............................................................................................4-2
4.1.2 Set all values to default.........................................................4-3
4.1.3 Date and time format.............................................................4-3
4.1.4 Antenna Blocked/Disconnected followed by normal
position report.........................................................................................4-6
4.1.5 Retransmit fail reports...........................................................4-6
4.1.6 Blocked GPS detection..........................................................4-7
4.1.7 Long to short report interval change...................................4-7
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4.1.8 Nice power down support....................................................4-8
4.1.9 Disable Send LED on position report TX........................4-11
4.1.10 Stop button initiates position report..................................4-11
4.1.11 Disable position report infos.............................................4-13
4.1.12 Password on da-command...............................................4-13
4.1.13 Only 1 packet per position report ......................................4-14
4.1.14 Mask out speed and course ..............................................4-14
4.1.15 Disable GPS first fix beep...................................................4-15
4.1.16 'A' in provider downloads VMS DNID................................4-15
4.1.17 Use VMS DNID for special reports ...................................4-16
4.1.18 Hide remote connections ...................................................4-17
4.1.19 Keep inactive connections .................................................4-18
4.1.20 MEM Code translation table...............................................4-18
4.1.21 Number of positions in storage queue............................4-19
4.1.22 Position report packet 2 - bit mask...................................4-20
4.1.23 Reporting intervals...............................................................4-21
4.1.24 Reporting interval change distance..................................4-22
4.1.25 VMS DNID and VMS LES ....................................................4-22
4.1.26 Number of active DNID in transceiver..............................4-23
4.2 Password protection.........................................................................4-23
4.3 Automatic ocean region shift...........................................................4-26
4.4 Reduced transmission mode.........................................................4-27
4.5 Sleep mode ........................................................................................4-30
4.5.1 Setting up Sleep mode operation.....................................4-31
4.6 Surveillance zones ............................................................................4-33
4.6.1 Setting up surveillance zones............................................4-35
5 Remote configuration of the transceiver via poll ......................................5-1
5.1 VMS Configuration ............................................................................... 5-1
5.2 Fishery Configuration (FI command) Poll....................................... 5-5
5.3 Zone Configuration Poll......................................................................5-7
5.4 VMS Set -up Acknowledgement.........................................................5-9
5.5 Fishery Set -up Poll Example...........................................................5-12
5.6 VMS connection for multiple ocean regions.................................5-14
5.7 Sleep mode Set-up Poll...................................................................5-17
5.8 Reduced transmission mode set-up poll.....................................5-18
6 Development tips ........................................................................................... 6-1
7 Index..................................................................................................................7-1
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Table of Figures
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Table of Figures
Figure 1 System Overview..........................................................................................1-2
Figure 2 LES, DNID and member number.............................................................1-2
Figure 3 API header of DNID file...............................................................................2.2
Figure 4 First Part of Position Report .......................................................................2.3
Figure 5 Second Part of Position Report.................................................................2.5
Figure 6 TT-3020C Maritime Capsat Transceiver .................................................3-1
Figure 7 TT-3020C Maritime Capsat Transceiver .................................................3-3
Figure 8TT-3022D Fishery Capsat Transceiver.....................................................3-5
Figure 9 TT-3022C Land Mobile Transceiver.........................................................3-6
Figure 10 Fishery Configuration Menu (fi)...............................................................4-2
Figure 11 Position report format 1............................................................................4-4
Figure 12 Antenna blocked/Disconnected reports ................................................4-6
Figure 13 Automatic change of reporting interval ..................................................4-8
Figure 14 In-port button............................................................................................4-12
Figure 15 Reduced Transmission Mode .............................................................4-28
Figure 17 Position, speed and course shown graphically...............................4-29
Figure 18 Vessel/Vehicle track...............................................................................4-29
Figure 19 Reports from MES in reduced mode ..................................................4-29
Figure 20 Radius used to check for reduced transmission.............................4-30
Figure 21 Zone example..........................................................................................4-34
Figure 22 Poll Command Checksum Calculation ................................................5-4
Figure 23 Example of Remote Poll Configuration..............................................5-13
Figure 24 Open Connection Poll............................................................................5-15
Figure 25Sleep mode Set-up Poll.........................................................................5-17
Figure 26 Sleep mode Acknowledge Report.......................................................5-18
Figure 27 Reduced Mode Set-up Poll...................................................................5-18
Figure 28 Reduced Mode Acknowledge Report.................................................5-19
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Table of Tables
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Table of Tables
Table 1 Position report format 2................................................................................4-4
Table 2 Position report format 3................................................................................4-5
Table 3 Default Macro Encoded Messages.........................................................4-19
Table 4 Password Protected Commands...........................................................4-25
Table 5 Sleep Mode Command.............................................................................4-32
Table 6 Possible zone shapes..............................................................................4-34
Table 7 T&T Remote Configuration..........................................................................5-1
Table 8 T&T Poll Command List...............................................................................5-3
Table 9 Connection between entry number and parameters.............................5-7
Table 10 Connection between Zone type and Zone data ....................................5-8
Table 11 Positive Open Connection acknowledgement...................................5-16
Table 12 Negative Open Connection acknowledgement.................................5-16
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An introduction to terms Introduction
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1 Introduction
This manual provides instructions for configuring the Thrane & Thrane fishery transceivers and land mobile transceiver for use in Vessel/Vehicle Monitoring Systems. The manual provides informa­tion for both the TT-3020C SOLAS GMDSS Transceiver, the TT­3028CM Dual Mode SOLAS GMDSS Transceiver, the TT-3022D Non-SOLAS Fishery Transceiver and for the TT-3022C Land Mobile Transceiver.
The manual contains no information about general installation of the equipment. This information should be found in the relevant in­stallation manuals. The TT-3020C Installation Manual (document number TT98-107880 ), the TT-3028CM Installation Manual (document number TT98-111327), the TT -3022D Installation Man­ual (document number TT98-107719) and the TT-3022C Installa­tion Manual (document number TT98-107307).
This manual cover software versions from 3.28 and up.
1.1 An introduction to terms
This section describes the terms in vessel/vehicle surveillance that are needed to understand the role of Inmarsat and T&T in VMS.
The most important terms used in VMS are Land Earth Stations (LES), VMS Data Network Id (DNID) and Member numbers.
Figure 1 shows a typical transmission path of a position being transferred from the Inmarsat-C transceiver in a fishery vessel to the vessel surveillance centre. The same path applies - but in the opposite direction - for commands send to the vessel.
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Land Earth StationFishing vessel
Vesse surveillance
centre
Terrestrial
line
Figure 1 System Overview
When a position is transmitted from the vessel/vehicle to the sur­veillance centre the address of the recipient must be known by the Inmarsat-C transceiver otherwise the transceiver will not know where to send it. This address is called the VMS DNID and VMS LES. Figure 2 shows an antenna blocked position report being sent to recipient LES 312 and DNID 12345.
Thrane & Thrane
Power Set Login Send Mail
TT-3022C
TT-3022D, TT-3020C,
TT-3028CM, TT-3022C
Antenna Blocked
55.44N 12.28E 11:37 am
10 knot
120 degree
To:
VMS LES: 312
VMS DNID: 12345
From: member 47
LES312
LES204
LES102
Figure 2 LES, DNID and member number
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The member number has a similar meaning as the return address on an envelope. The member number is used by the ves­sel/vehicle surveillance centre to identify the transceiver that transmitted the position report.
When a position report is received by the Land Earth Station (LES) a DNID file is created from the packets received in the VMS DNID mailbox. The DNID file can then be forwarded to the fishery authori­ties or other vessel/vehicle surveillance authorities via the terres­trial line. The type of network used to access the Inmarsat-C Land Earth Station (X.25, PSTN etc.) is not discussed in this document. It is also important to notice that the LES interface varies with the dif­ferent producer of LES.
Position reports as transmitted by the Inmarsat-C transceiver are one or two 15 bytes data packets on the satellite link but this infor­mation is packed into a DNID format before it is transmitted to the vessel/vehicle surveillance centre. Therefore it is the DNID format that is being described throughout this manual.
1.2 Short feature description
The Thrane & Thrane Fishery Transceiver is the market leader in Inmarsat-C Vessel Monitoring Systems. The Transceiver has been approved as Fishery Monitoring Unit in a large number of countries and offers a great variety of configurations depending on the spe­cific needs.
In the following is a short list of the primary features in both of the Thrane & Thrane Inmarsat-C fishery transceivers.
Freely configurable position reporting interval
Detection and reporting of Inmarsat-C antenna blockage
Detection and reporting of GPS blockage
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Configurable one or two packets report depending on the need for speed and course information.
4 different formats for date and time information
Remote configuration from VMS centre of key features in the
transceiver.
Password protection of configuration and relevant commands.
Possible reduced transmission mode with long and short re-
porting interval depending on vessel movements
Button for initiating manual position report or indication in har­bour status.
Storing of up to 100 position reports when outside Inmarsat coverage
Configurable macro codes for different events.
Possibility of retransmission of failed reports
Possibility of hiding transmission (Not applicable for SOLAS
transceiver)
Sleep mode where the transceiver automatic turns off to save power when not sending (Not applicable for SOLAS trans­ceiver)
Differentiation between “Power down” status and “Nice power down” status (special power off button).
Surveillance zones giving a geographical area and a reporting interval to be used in that area .
The Thrane & Thrane Land Mobile Transceiver includes full VMS functionality identical to its maritime counterpart in both behaviour and in packet format.
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1.2.1 Restriction to the SOLAS Fishery
Some of the features described in this manual are in conflict with the SOLAS GMDSS requirements. Therefore thes e features are not implemented in the TT-3020C SOLAS Fishery Transceiver or in the TT-3028CM Dual Mode SOLAS GMDSS Transceiver.
A short list of the missing features are listed in the following. A more comprehensive description of the feature is given in the rele­vant sections of this manual.
Nice Power Down Support. Please see section 4.1.8.
Disable Send LED on position report TX. Please see section
4.1.9
Position report packet 2 - bit mask. Due to the fact that no GMDSS Message Terminal supports this feature. Please see section 4.1.22.
Sleep mode. Please see section 4.5.
Password protection of the commands “Login” and “Scan”.
Please see section 4.2.
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DNID Common Format LES Interface
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2 LES Interface
This manual does not discuss the interface between the Vessel Monitoring Centre and the Inmarsat-C Land Earth Station. However a description of the DNID file format is discussed in section 2.1 as this should give a good hand-on feeling of the actual information that can be passed between the Vessel Monitoring Unit and the Vessel Monitoring Centre.
2.1 DNID Common Format
The format of the DNID file on the LES depends on the configura­tion of LES DNID account. In the following it is assumed that the DNID files are stored using API headers. Please reed more in about API headers in the document “TT-6000 Inmarsat-C Land Earth Station API-Header Description”.
In Figure 3 the common API Header is described and in Figure 4 the first part of the position report is illustrated. Finally in Figure 5 the format of the optional second position report is described.
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2.1.1 API Header Format
0 01 1 byte Indication of header start (EOH) 1 ‘T’ 3 bytes
2 ‘&’ 3 ‘T’
ASCII values for string "T&T" i.e. byte values 54H,26H,54H
4 01 1 byte Type of API header (01 for DNID
header)
5 22 1 byte The length of this header in bytes 6 Msg. Ref. LSB 4 bytes 7 - 8 - 9 Msg. Ref. MSB
Message reference number
10 Presentation 1 byte Receive alphabet from satellite
side message reception, see note 1
11 LES ID 1 byte LES ID, can be used for
identification of ocean region for multi ocean LES's
12 Data Length LSB 2 bytes 13 Data Length MSB
Number of data bytes following the header
14 Stored time LSB 4 bytes 15 - 16 - 17 Stored time MSB
Giving the time of message store. The bytes given will be the number of seconds since January 1. 1970 0:0:0
18 DNID LSB 2 bytes 19 DNID MSB
The DNID of the file.
20 Member number 1 byte Member number sent by the MES
in the position report
21 02 1 byte Indication of header end (STX)
Figure 3 API header of DNID file
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2.1.2 First part of Positioning Report
22 Cat
Position 2 bit : Category field 23 24 25 26
39 bit : Position - Latitude and
Longitude
27 MEM 7 bit : MEM code (Macro
Encoded Message) 28 29
Attribute 2 bytes : Time and date of position
Figure 4 First Part of Position Report
The format of the category field, Position field, MEM code and At­tribute field is described in the following.
2.1.2.1 Cat (2 bits)
The Category is set to 01B (Maritime) in all Position Reports gen­erated by the TT-3020C SOLAS Fishery, the TT-3028CM Dual Mode SOLAS GMDSS Transceiver, the TT-3022D Non SOLAS Fis hery transceiver and the TT-3022C Land Mobile Transceiver if config­ured for VMS . 01B indicates that the position in the report comes directly from the build-in GPS in the transceiver. A category field dif­ferent from 01B indicates that this is an operator generated data report and the position is not included in the report.
2.1.2.2 Position (39 bits)
[Position] ::= [Latitude][Longitude]
Latitude (19 bits)
[Latitude] ::= [Hemisphere][Degrees][Minutes][Fractional part]
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Hemisphere (1 bit)
A North/South flag. Set to 0 for North or 1 for South.
Degrees (7 bits)
The degrees of Latitude, North or South. 1° being 60 minutes.
Minutes (6 bits)
The integer part of the Minutes of latitude. 1 minute being 1 nautical mile - 1852 meters
Fractional part (5 bits)
The fractional part of the Minutes of latitude in units of 0.04 of a Minute i.e. ~74 meters.
Longitude (20 bits)
[Longitude] ::= [Hemisphere][Degrees][Minutes][Fractional part]
Hemisphere (1 bit)
An East/West flag. Set to 0 for East or 1 for West.
Degrees (8 bits)
The degrees of Longitude, East or West.
Minutes (6 bits)
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The integer part of the Minutes of longitude.
Fractional part (5 bits)
The fractional part of the Minutes of longitude in units of 0.04 of a Minute.
2.1.2.3 Macro Encoded Message (MEM) (7 bits)
A Macro Encoded Message (MEM) is a pre-defined message rep­resented by a unique 7 bit code. Please refer to section 4.1.20 for detailed description of Macro Encoded Messages.
2.1.2.4 Attribute (date and time) (16 bits)
Date, Time is put in this field and coded as: [Date, time]::=[not used][day][hour][minute] not used (1 bit): Always 0 day (5 bits): day of the month hour (5 bits): hour of the day minutes (5 bits): in units of 2 minutes
2.1.3 Second Part of Positioning Report
30 Speed 8 bit : Speed 31 Course 9 bit : Course 32 Reserved 15 bit : Reserved 33
Figure 5 Second Part of Position Report
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The format of the speed and course field are described in the fol­lowing.
2.1.3.1 Speed (1 byte)
Speed is coded as a one byte unsigned binary number with a resolution of 0.2 knots. If no valid data is available at the MES, the field should be set to "FFH".
2.1.3.2 Course (9 bits)
The Course is coded as a 9 bit unsigned binary number with a resolution of 1 degree.
2.1.3.3 Reserved (15 bits)
Unused and set to zero.
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3 Initial setup of transceiver
The initial set-up depends on the choice of transceiver. In the fo l­lowing the initial configuration of the two different Thrane & Thrane transceiver are described.
3.1 TT-3020C SOLAS Transceiver
The TT-3020C is a GMDSS approved Inmarsat-C transceiver for SOLAS applications. When the transceiver has installed software version V3.24 or above is approved for both GMDSS and fishery surveillance.
Figure 6 TT-3020C Maritime Capsat Transceiver
When receiving the transceiver the TT-3020C is default set to SO­LAS Maritime behaviour i.e. no fishery surveillance is enabled. Some configurations are necessary before setting the transceiver on-air to fulfil the VMS requirements.
3.1.1 Making a SOLAS Fishery Transceiver
To change the TT-3020C SOLAS Maritime transceiver into a TT ­3020C SOLAS Fishery transceiver the command “SE-B” must be
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executed in the transceiver terminal. The SE-B command enters the system parameter initialisation menu. Menu entry 7 Change
MES into SOLAS Fishery transceiver changes the transceiver into a SOLAS Fishery transceiver.
Please notice that once the transceiver has been changed to a SOLAS Fishery it is no longer possible to change it back to a normal SOLAS Maritime transceiver.
The transceiver will automatically reboot when changing trans­ceiver type and after power-up identify itself as a SOLAS Fishery transceiver.
TT-3020C SOLAS Fishery does not allow external position to set the position of the transceiver and therefore NMEA input is dis­abled.
3.1.2 Ocean Registration
When the transceiver is configured for SOLAS Fishery the trans­ceiver will automatically login to the ocean region with the best sig­nal (if not already logged in). Using the transceiver terminal com­mand "SET -O" the preferred ocean can be configured and the transceiver will try to login into this preferred ocean when going on­air for the first time.
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3.2 TT-3028CM Dual Mode Fishery Transceiver
The TT-3028CM is a GMDSS approved Inmarsat-C transceiver and Mini-M phone for SOLAS applications. When the transceiver has installed software version V3.24 or above is approved for both GMDSS and fishery surveillance.
Figure 7 TT-3020C Maritime Capsat Transceiver
When receiving the transceiver the TT-3028CM is default set to SOLAS Maritime behaviour i.e. no fishery surveillance is enabled. Some configurations are necessary before setting the transceiver on-air to fulfil the VMS requirements.
3.2.1 Making a SOLAS Fishery Transceiver
To change the TT-3028CM SOLAS Maritime transceiver into a TT­3028CM SOLAS Fishery transceiver the command “SE-B” must be executed in the transceiver terminal. The SE-B command enters the system parameter initialisation menu. Menu entry 7 Change
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