gen − program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation
gen [options] output_file
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.
−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.
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
This manual page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms AT debian DOT org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).