Originally Posted by
lincolnjkc
ABC = The "agent" (either human or automation)'s city code. For airport agents this will be the airport code, for other agents this will be a psuedo city code (eg HDQ, WHQ, WEB, ...)
The next two sets of two characters are IIRC the role the agent is signed in as and the agent's sine (I think SU, for example=Supervisor, but I may be getting myself confused with another system, and the other two character "sine" uniquely ID the agent within that city code... Agents in who have been in the same place long enough may have their first and last initial (e.g. mine would be LK) -- otherwise it's random.
The 6-digit hexadecimal LNTA (a6b1d9) is the teletype address of the specific terminal used to make the entry.
That said with Aero and Jet I'm not clear if they actually use the agent's sine or if theres a common sine used (in which case someone would have to look at the audit logs in Aero and/or Jet to see who did what where..mi don't have any samples that would help me determine that
Great info, thanks.
I'm not familiar with that sense of the word "sine" (agent's sine, two character sine, common sine) — is that jargon for something like a call sign? I only think of trigonometry.
From the fair amount of variation I can find in sines (assuming I'm using that correctly; the third code) attached to various remarks, I think they probably are indeed unique to an agent, although I don't see examples of same PCC/role + different sine, which I imagine would be conclusive. However, I do get the impression that with Aero and Jet there are other audit trails not included in remarks, as I have had some agents make significant changes without generating any remarks.
I had initially assumed all remarks from "WEB" were added by some kind of automation, but actually I see sometimes they have different sign-in role codes (usually SU, not always) and different "sines" (usually BK, but also not always). I then wondered if there might be some human generated remarks place-located to WEB (web services??), although I suppose maybe more likely they just identifies different computer/automation systems.
Anyway, I'm rambling now.