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Online power profiler 0 byte payload Tx time = 128us

In the online power profiler for nRF52832, when I look at the advertising (Tx/Rx) power consumption I see that if I set the Tx payload to 0 bytes the Tx time modeled is 128us. I assume this means that, with a 1M PHY, the are 128 bits = 16 bytes of overhead transmitted in an advertisement packet that is required by the protocol even if I'm not sending any payload.

However, when I looked at the BLE advertising packet format, I see that the overhead is only 1+4+2+3 = 10 bytes if I set the payload to zero. 

I am curious what is the information I am missing here that requires 6 more bytes of on-air time for Tx that I see in the OPP? Thanks! 

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