Manual
Chapter 5 ______________________________ Operating WMT700 with WS425 and SDI-12 profiles 
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WMT700 responds to the Wx command with a 19-character fixed-length 
data message. For more information, see Table 19 below. 
Table 19  WS425 A/B ASCII Data Message 
Character Description 
1  ┐ 02H (<STX>, start of transmission) 
2 W 
3  Averaging in seconds. 
4 Status: 
P = pass 
F = fail 
5  Wind direction (most significant digit) 
6  Wind direction (middle digit) 
7  Wind direction (least significant digit) 
8  Wind speed (most significant digit) 
9  Wind speed (next digit) 
10  Wind speed (next digit) 
11  Wind speed (least significant digit) 
12  . (dot character) 
13  Wind speed (tenth digit) 
14 Wind speed unit: 
M = miles per hour 
K= knots 
L = kilometers per hour 
T = meters per second 
15  Checksum (most significant digit). For more information, see the 
note below. 
16  Checksum (least significant digit) 
17  └ 03H (<ETX>, end of transmission) 
18 CR (carriage return) 
19  LF (line feed) 
NOTE 
The checksum is calculated from the characters from position 2 to 14. 
The accumulator initializes at 0 with the addition of the byte value. The 
checksum has a range of 0H … FFH. 
Example of the command and response:  
W5 
W5P1200013.2TDE 










