---
name: "gen"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "multimon"
version: "1.0-8"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gen"
---

# gen(1)

program to generate test files of radio transmission modulation

## 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)](/multimon/1.md)

## 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).