NAME

       multimon-ng - program to decode radio transmissions

SYNOPSIS

       multimon-ng [options] [input_file]

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents  briefly  the  multimon-ng command. This manual page was written for Debian
       because the original program does not have a manual page.

       The multimon-ng software can decode a variety of digital transmission modes  commonly  found  on  VHF/UHF
       radio.  A  standard  PC  soundcard is used to acquire the signal from a transceiver. The decoding is done
       completely in software. Currently, the following modes are supported:

              •   AX.25

                  •   1200 Baud AFSK

                  •   2400 Baud AFSK (2 variants)

                  •   4800 Baud HAPN

                  •   9600 Baud FSK (G3RUH)

              •   POCSAG

                  •   512 Baud

                  •   1200 Baud

                  •   2400 Baud

              •   Selective call

                  •   CCIR

                  •   EEA

                  •   EIA

              •   Frequency Shift Keying

                  •   1200 Baud FSK (2200/1200 Hz)

                  •   1200 Baud FSK (2300/1100 Hz)

                  •   1200 baud FMS FSK

              •   Miscellaneous

                  •   DTMF

                  •   CW/Morse

                  •   EAS

                  •   FLEX

                  •   SCOPE

                  •   X10

                  •   ZVEI

       An arbitrary set of the above modes may run concurrently on the same input signal (provided the CPU power
       is  sufficient),  so  you do not have to know in advance which mode is used. Note however that some modes
       might require modifications to the radio (especially the 9600 baud FSK and  the  POCSAG  modes)  to  work
       properly.

       AX.25 - Amateur Packet Radio protocol datagram format.
       DTMF - Dual Tone Multi Frequency. Commonly used in in-band telephone dialing.
       EAS - Emergency Alert System.
       FLEX - a paging format.
       POCSAG (Post Office Code Standards Advisory Group) is a common paging transmission format.
       SCOPE - show samples in a rudimentary oscilloscope display on an X server.
       X10 - a home automation protocol.
       ZVEI - The German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association - paging tone format.

OPTIONS

       -t <type>
              Input  file  type  (any other type than raw requires sox).  Allowed types: raw aiff au hcom sf voc
              cdr dat smp wav maud vwe.

       -a <demod>
              Add demodulator (see below).

       -s <demod>
              Subtract demodulator.

       -c     Remove all demodulators (must be added with -a <demod>).

       -q     Quiet output messages.

       -v <num>
              Verbosity level (0-10).  For POCSAG and MORSE_CW '-v1' prints decoding statistics.

       -h     Print the help.

       -A     APRS mode (TNC2 text output).

       -m     Mute SoX warnings.

       -m     Call SoX in repeatable mode (e.g. fixed random seed for dithering).

       -n     Don't flush stdout, increases performance.

       -e     POCSAG: Hide empty messages.

       -u     POCSAG: Heuristically prune unlikely decodes.

       -i     POCSAG: Inverts the input samples. Try this if decoding fails.

       -p     POCSAG: Show partially received messages.

       -f <mode>
              POCSAG: Disables auto-detection and forces decoding of data as <mode> (<mode>  can  be  'numeric',
              'alpha', 'skyper' and 'auto')

       -b <level>
              POCSAG:  BCH  bit  error  correction level. Set 0 to disable, default is 2.  Lower levels increase
              performance and lower false positives.

       -C <cs>
              POCSAG: Set charset (default: US), where <cs> is one of: US, FR, DE, SE

       -o <time>
              CW: Set threshold for dit detection (default: 500)

       -d <time>
              CW: Dit length in ms (default: 50)

       -g <time>
              CW: Gap length in ms (default: 50)

       -x     CW: Disable auto threshold detection

       -y     CW: Disable auto timing detection

       --timestamp
              Add a time stamp in front of every printed line

       --label <label>
              Add a label to the front of every printed line

       Where <demod> is one of: POCSAG512 POCSAG1200  POCSAG2400  FLEX  EAS  UFSK1200  CLIPFSK  FMSFSK  AFSK1200
       AFSK2400  AFSK2400_2 AFSK2400_3 HAPN4800 FSK9600 DTMF ZVEI1 ZVEI2 ZVEI3 DZVEI PZVEI EEA EIA CCIR MORSE_CW
       DUMPCSV X10 SCOPE
       The -a and -s options may be given multiple times to specify the desired list of demodulators.

EXAMPLE

       Decode signal modulations from a sound file /tmp/message.wav without using a SCOPE display:
       multimon-ng -s SCOPE -t wav /tmp/message.wav

       With no input file specified, the program listens directly to the sound card  using  PulseAudio.   So  to
       decode (only) DTMF tones on the sound card input:
       multimon-ng -a DTMF

NOTICE

       Please note that monitoring commercial services may be prohibited in some countries, this software should
       therefore only be used to monitor the amateur radio service.

BUGS

       The DTMF and ZVEI decoders have more frequent spurious detection reports.

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).  This is free software. you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
       terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
       the License, or any later version.

                                                  July 7, 2019                                    MULTIMON-NG(1)