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TABLE: SC_RCT$

SC_RCT$ -- Surface code values for srfcCode='RCT$': XBT recorder type (WMO code 4770)
CODE MEANING
// Unknown
01 Sippican Strip Chart Recorder
02 Sippican MK2A/SSQ-61
03 Sippican MK-9
04 Sippican AN/BHQ-7/MK8
05 Sippican MK-12
06 Sippican MK-21
07 Sippican MK-8 Linear Recorder
08 Sippican MK-10
10 Sparton SOC BT/SV Processor Model 10011
11 Lockheed-Sanders Model OL5005
127 Missing value
20 ARGOS XBT-ST
21 CLS-ARGOS/Protecno XBT-ST Model-1
22 CLS-ARGOS/Protecno XBT-ST Model-2
30 BATHY Systems SA-810
31 Scripps Metrobyte Controller
32 Murayama Denki Z-60-16 III
33 Murayama Denki Z-60-16 II
34 Protecno ETSM2
35 Nautilus Marine Service NMS-XBT
40 TSK MK-2A
41 TSK MK-2S
42 TSK MK-30
43 TSK MK-30N
45 TSK MK-100
46 TSK MK-130 Compatible recorder for both XBT and XCTD
47 TSK MK-130A XCTD recorder
48 TSK AXBT RECEIVER MK-300
49 TSK MK-150 Compatible recorder for both XBT and XCTD
50 JMA ASTOS
60 ARGOS communications, sampling on up transit
61 ARGOS communications, sampling on down transit
62 Orbcomm communications, sampling on up transit
63 Orbcomm communications, sampling on down transit
64 Iridium, communications sampling on up transit
65 Iridium communications, sampling on down transit
70 Turo Devil with Sippican Mk 9 card
71 Turo Devil USB
72 Turo Quoll
73 UNDEFINED (same as 72 temporary as of 20130823)
80 Applied Microsystems Ltd., MICRO-SVT&
81 Sea Mammal Research Unit, Univ. St. Andrews, UK, uncorrected
82 Sea Mammal Research Unit, Univ. St. Andrews, UK, corrected
99 Unknown