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Introducing PFAT
From release 1.12 and onward, the the P.F.A.T. control system present in the Enterprise editions of SNIP has been moved to the Pro, and Basic editions. Lite copies of SNIP share the same code base,...
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PFAT: Parse Settings and Uses
SNIP uses an intelligent auto-parse logic to determine the format of the messages in the data stream and reacts accordingly. When a data stream is first parsed a process examines the first 3K of data...
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PFAT: Filter Settings and Uses
With release 2.x and onward, the the P.F.A.T. control system provides several innovative ways to control the messages present in every data stream. The PFAT features are available in the Pro, Basic,...
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PFAT: Filter Dialog Controls
With release 2.x and onward, the the P.F.A.T. control system provides several innovative ways to control the messages present in every data stream. The PFAT features are available in the Pro, Basic,...
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PFAT: Add Settings and Uses
The the P.F.A.T. control system provides several innovative ways to control the messages present in every data stream. The PFAT features are available in the Pro, Basic, editions of SNIP. Lite copies...
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Moving a Base Station’s reported position, a silly example
In this short article we show the effect of moving the ECEF of a Base Station on the rover position to more forcefully demonstrate that whatever the Base Station says, be it right or wrong, the rover...
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PFAT: Adjusting a Base Station to a Common Reference Frame
How to Adjust a Base Station to a common Reference Frame so the RTCM messages (MT1005 and 1006) use the correct location. See also this article on the Translation of ECEF in a small network. This is...
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PFAT, Used to create multiple streams
The most common use of the PFAT ability is to modify the source NTRIP Caster data stream from a single Base Station for use, and place the resulting stream out on the SNIP Caster. A typical PFAT use A...
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PFAT: Translate Settings and Uses
The P.F.A.T. control system provides several innovative ways to control the messages present in every data stream. The PFAT features are available in the Pro, Basic, editions of SNIP. Lite copies of...
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PFAT: Adjusting the Datum for a Network
In this article we review the process to align the reported Base Station ECEF locations for a network of six stations to all use a common IGS08 frame of reference. This is commonly necessary when the...
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The PFAT feature provides a number of proprietary methods to control the Base Station Data stream content sent to your end users (NTRIP Clients). Using PFAT, a single data stream can be replicated in...
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Removing GLONASS Message Content
This article shows how to set the the PFAT controls to remove classical GLONASS RTCM 3.x messages (message types 1009~1012) from a stream, leaving only the GPS types. This action is often desired to...
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Release 2_00_00 Changes
What is new in the SNIP 2_00_00 release [released March 13th 2018] This is the next release of SNIP following the Rev 1_12_1 release of January 5th and including various pre-release Beta copies used...
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PFAT: Main Dialog
The the P.F.A.T. control system provides several innovative ways to control the messages present in every data stream. The PFAT features are available in the Pro, Basic, editions of SNIP. Lite copies...
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Translating Base Station Details
The Base Station Details dialog is another PFAT Translate function that allows changing various static data fields about the Base Station equipment and configuration. Most of this information is...
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PFAT: Last Observation Flag
The Last Observation Flag translation is used to adjust the flags present in the RTCM3 messages which are used to indicate (to the rover devices) that the last set of observations at a given common...
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PFAT: Removing L2 content in Legacy messages
The Remove all L2 Observation Content translation is used remove L2 content from Legacy RTCM3 message types 1003~1004 (GPS) and 1011~1012 (GLONASS) to produce (smaller) 1002 and 1010 messages. This...
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PFAT: MSM to Legacy messages
The MSM to Legacy translation is used to translate newer MSM style messages (msm = multiple signals messages) to old Legacy style messages. This has value to network operators whose rover communities...
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PFAT: Legacy to MSM messages
The Legacy to MSM translation is used to translate older Legacy messages to newer MSM style message types (msm = multiple signals messages). This has value to network operators with an installed base...
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Adding MT1008 RTCM Messages
In this article we review how to add the RTCM message Antenna Descriptor and Serial Number aka MT1008 to any Base Station data stream when it is missing. We use SNIP‘s proprietary PFAT® abilities...
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