EOTOnATCS

Q:  Looking at the CSX BCP system today, I noticed the following message, what is it?:

2006/10/27 20:41:42

???? Datagram (1) to Wayside Device (5)

Frame=34 GFI=2 Group=5 SSeq=16 Rseq=78 Beacon=0 Vital=0 UsrData =16

Number=0.0.0 EOT_DEVICE_REPORT

4C A1 55 33 00 00 20 02 04 C4 02 04 01 00 02 10 L.U3.. .........

A: It seems that on occasion ATCS allows some corrupted messages through, or perhaps they are malformed when they leave the tower. In either case I'll bet the address associated with this was 5 digits, which is how ATCS Monitor IDs the packet as an EOT output. Normally that's the only way to get a 5 digit address in ATCS Monitor.

-- GaryHahn - 06 Nov 2006