NAME¶
gen - program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation
SYNOPSIS¶
gen [
options] output_file
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
gen
command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
multimon is a program that decodes radio transmissions,
gen
generates modulated files suitable for decoding with
multimon.
OPTIONS¶
- -t <type>
- output file type (any other type than raw requires sox).
allowed types: raw aiff au hcom sf voc cdr dat smp wav maud vwe
- -a <ampl>
- amplitude.
- -d <str>
- encode DTMF string.
- -z <str>
- encode ZVEI string.
- -s <freq>
- encode sine of given frequency.
- -p <text>
- encode hdlc packet using specified text.
EXAMPLE¶
Create a file /tmp/message.wav containing sound samples of packet radio message:
gen -p "This is a message." -t raw /tmp/message.wav
To dial a number directly to the sound card output:
gen -d 8675309
SEE ALSO¶
multimon(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).