Program & System Documentation
USMCC National Rescue Coordination Center and Search and Rescue Point of Contact Alert and Support Messages (Version 1.82) - 20 March 2009
This document describes the messages transmitted to national RCCs and national SPOCs. The document contains general information in Section 1 and information about the methodology used to develop the alert messages in Section 2. Sections 3 and 4 contain examples of alert and support messages and an explanation of the information contained in the messages. These sections are intended for users of the data.
The document is structured so that the user may use it as a reference and go directly to a specific type of alert message (in Section 3). In order to allow for the document to be used in this manner details on the information is duplicated under each type of alert message.
The Appendices to this document contain the following information:
- Definitions of terms used in messages
- Beacon registration data block formats
- International RCC and SPOC message formats
- Alert message structures (distribution of this appendix is limited to RCCs automatically processing USMCC messages)
- Support message structures (distribution of this appendix is limited to RCCs automatically processing USMCC messages)
406 MHz Beacon Coding Guidelines for USA National Use Fields - 17 November 2000
The purpose of this document is to provide the USA coding and bit allocation guidelines for Cospas-Sarsat beacon protocols that allow a “national use” field. These protocols include the Serialized User Protocol, National User Protocol and the National Location Protocol.
Cospas-Sarsat Documentation maintained by the Cospas-Sarsat Secretariat, including:
- System Documents
- System Data
- Information Bulletins, and
- Other Documents.