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NEWS |
| 20/05/06 | 2.0.0: The morse decoder can now be disabled. |
| 05/08/04 | 1.8.8: A bug in the incoming signal buffering that would overwrite buffered events when frames would come too fast during the fade-out period, just after a buffer underrun, was corrected. |
Description |
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw morse code over
the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted morse code can be
received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc
tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig : it sends and receives morse
over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on
the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key
connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played
through the soundcard, or through an external sounder.
Note that CWirc doesn't do any morse decoding : it simply transmits and receives morse code timing events. A standard IRC user on the same IRC channel you're transmitting morse on will only see coded lines when morse code is transmitted. Only other CWirc users can receive what you send. |
Version | 2.0.0 |
OSes |
Linux FreeBSD (tested on FreeBSD 5.1) NetBSD (tested on NetBSD 1.6.1) |
Download |
cwirc-2.0.0.tar.gz README Changelog Screenshot How to connect a morse key to your computer, to key morse in CWirc Schematic of a CW oscillator driven by a serial port you can use with CWirc |
Debian packages |
cwirc_2.0.0-0_i386.deb (unofficial latest package)
If you need this early release package of CWirc, you can use apt-get to download/install the source or binary package. Just add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://users.skynet.be/ppc/cwirc/debian ./ deb-src http://users.skynet.be/ppc/cwirc/debian ./ If you don't need the latest and greatest CWirc, a reasonably recent version is available from the regular Debian Unstable distribution. |
RPM packages |
cwirc-1.8.8-1.i586.rpm
cwirc-1.8.8-1.src.rpm (sorry, I don't have an RPM-based box anymore, these packages are not up-to-date) |
License | GPL |
CWirc extensions |
- HELLoIP,
a patch for gMFSK to do Hellschreiber using CWirc - CWirc QRSS extension, a patch for glfer to do QRSS CW using CWirc - TWCW, an automatic Morse sending program from Ted WA0EIR that can also key a transceiver and be used for practice drills. |
Active CW IRC channels |
Channels containing "cwirc" Note: if you create a channel, please put "CWirc" somewhere in the channel name or topic so it can be listed on SearchIRC |
X-Chat | http://www.xchat.org/ |
X-Chat parrot plugin | parrot plugin : use it in a second X-Chat client to reflect what you key with CWirc back to you. Useful to test CWirc without other OMs to answer you, or to test the latency of an IRC server with CWirc. |
Morse code |
A Brief History of Morse Code
Morse Code Operating Aids A technical history of the 19th-century electromagnetic telegraph |
DOT code |
U.S. Military Telegraph - Telegraph history of the Civil War How Dot Code Works Dot code cheat sheet |
IRC for hams |
#cw on irc.freenode.net (see the
channel page
for details) #hamradio on irc.freenode.net #cqdx on irc.radiochat.org |
Software |
CWCom for Windows MorseMail CW trainers |
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