CWDAEMON(8)

NAME
cwdaemon - morse daemon for the serial or parallel port

SYNOPSIS
cwdaemon [options] ...

DESCRIPTION
Cwdaemon is a small daemon which uses the pc parallel or serial port and a simple transistor switch to output morse code to a transmitter from a text message sent to it via udp port 6789.

OPTIONS

-d <device> Use a different device for keying.

-h Show summary of options.

-l <port> Use a different parallel or serial base port number.
    Defaults are 0x3f8 and 0x378.

-n Do not fork and print debug information to stdout.

-p <port> Use a different UDP port number (default = 6789)

-s <speed> Set speed, value larger than 4 (default = 24).

-t <time> Set PTT delay, value from 0 to 50 ms (default = 0).

-v Output version information and exit.

-w <weight> Set weighting, value from -5 to 5 (default = 0).

DEVICES
Device should be one of ttyS0, ttyS1, lp0, lp1 or lp2. The default is lp0, which is also the default parallel port on most hardware.

SEE ALSO
The provided README in /usr/share/cwdaemon for a description of the circuitry, usage and testing of cwdaemon.

AUTHOR
Cwdaemon was written by Joop Stakenborg <pa4tu at amsat.org>, Rein Couperus <pa0rct at amsat.org>, Wolf-Ruediger Juergens, DL2WRJ <WJuergens at t-online.de> and Ladislav Vaiz, OK1ZIA <ziav at adela.fel.zcu.cz>. Code maintainer is Joop.