to me it looks like a way to configure the chip to work in CASIC or in NMEA, or in both. It looks like the chip is preconfigured to work in Text protocol (NMEA) only. There is CAS10 command that can do factory default to restart. That may turn on text and binary both.
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@HughB I am looking into CFG-PRT, there is interesting item
to me it looks like a way to configure the chip to work in CASIC or in NMEA, or in both. It looks like the chip is preconfigured to work in Text protocol (NMEA) only. There is CAS10 command that can do factory default to restart. That may turn on text and binary both.