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The label on the left is the index number of the first range bin on the line. The numbers
displayed are the power of the pulse in dBm and the angle in degrees of the
IQ
vector.
-length:N
The -length:N option allows you to specify the maximum number of characters to display
under the –data option. In this example, the length is set to 43 characters.
$ tsview RVP8.20031208.192519.074* –count:1 –skip:1 00 –data
–length :43 Site:RVP8
Pulse #101 at :19:25:19.406 8 DEC 2003 UTC, Az: 9.99, El:29.98
0: (–91.2 ,244 ) (–91.2, 0) (–80.4,209)
3: (–87.4 ,149 ) (–82.2,150) (–79.9, 95)
-skip:N
Use -skip:N to specify how many pulses to skip before starting the terminal listing. In this
example, we wanted the 101st pulse, so we specified -skip:100 .
-verbose
Use
-verbose
to see the detailed information contained in the headers. This was enabled
in the example session. See D.10.2 Starting tsview Sample Session (page 410) .
D.11 TS Record Data Format
Each TS file recorded to disk contains a run of 1 or more pulses, which are from the same
basic RVP900 configuration. In RVP900 nomenclature, this is called the
Acquisition
Mode (stored in the rvptsPulseInfo structure). Each time something changes, such as
the PRF, the acquisition mode changes, and a new file is created. If there are no changes, the
files are arbitrarily written every 200000 pulses.
TS files consist of ASCII headers and binary data, shown in the following table. They start
with the
rvptsPulseInfo structure. This is followed by possibly many pulses. Each pulse
has a rvptsPulseHdr structure followed by an array of 16-bit binary data.
Table 121 TS File Format
File Component Description
<rvptsPulseInfo>
Variable size, even
<rvptsPulseHdr #1>
Variable size, even
Pulse Data #1
16-bit words, count from header
<rvptsPulseHdr #2>
Variable size, even
Pulse Data #2
16-bit words, count from header
Appendix D – Time Series Recording
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