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  2. Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon - Wikipedia

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    A unique 15-digit hexadecimal beacon identification code (a "15-hex ID"). The encoded identification of the vessel or aircraft in distress, either as an MMSI value, or as, in the case of an ELT, either the aircraft's registration or its ICAO 24-bit address (from its Mode-S transponder). When equipped, a GPS position.

  3. Emergency locator beacon - Wikipedia

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    Emergency locator beacon. An emergency locator beacon is a radio beacon, a portable battery powered radio transmitter, used to locate airplanes, vessels, and persons in distress and in need of immediate rescue. Various types of emergency locator beacons are carried by aircraft, ships, vehicles, hikers and cross-country skiers.

  4. BCH code - Wikipedia

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    The BCH code with and higher has the generator polynomial. This code has minimal Hamming distance 15 and corrects 7 errors. It has 1 data bit and 14 checksum bits. It is also denoted as: (15, 1) BCH code. In fact, this code has only two codewords: 000000000000000 and 111111111111111 (a trivial repetition code).

  5. Radio Data System - Wikipedia

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    Radio Data System (RDS) is a communications protocol standard for embedding small amounts of digital information in conventional FM radio broadcasts. RDS standardizes several types of information transmitted, including time, station identification and program information. The standard began as a project of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU ...

  6. Aviation transponder interrogation modes - Wikipedia

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    The aviation transponder interrogation modes are the standard formats of pulsed sequences from an interrogating Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) or similar Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. The reply format is usually referred to as a "code" from a transponder, which is used to determine detailed information from a ...

  7. Hexadecimal - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using ten symbols, hexadecimal uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent values 0 to 9 ...

  8. HP 35s - Wikipedia

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    Dimensions. 158 × 82 × 18.2 mm (6.22 × 3.23 × 0.72 in) The HP 35s (F2215A) is a Hewlett-Packard non-graphing programmable scientific calculator. Although it is a successor to the HP 33s, it was introduced to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the HP-35, Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator (and the world's first pocket scientific ...

  9. Gillham code - Wikipedia

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    Gillham code is a zero-padded 12-bit binary code using a parallel nine- [ 1 ] to eleven-wire interface, [ 2 ] the Gillham interface, that is used to transmit uncorrected barometric altitude between an encoding altimeter or analog air data computer and a digital transponder. It is a modified form of a Gray code and is sometimes referred to ...