diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 55dfb51..366ac62 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ # What is IRMC? +IRMC stands for Internet Relay Morse Code. It implements the CWCom protocol + +## Why morse code over IP? +Why not? A number of different approaches for CW over IP exist. An early implementation has been the CWCom protocol, +which has been the basis for Morse KOB, a ready-to-use software. Both chat programs have been written for CW exclusively and are compatible. An alternative implementation in C exists as well as a port to the ATMEL AVR Microcontroller. + +Besides a variety of other approaches exist, for example an IRC plugin (CWirc, Pierre-Philippe Coupard: http://myspace.voo.be/pcoupard/cwirc/), a JavaScript implementation (Burak Kanber: http://morsecode.me), a bandwidth-eating UDP implementation (Morse over IP, Hans Liss: http://hans.liss.pp.se/node/343), a chat for iOS (CW with me (iOS), Nick Garner: http://pignology.net/cwwithme.html) or a modulated CW over IP using Mumble (iCW: https://sites.google.com/site/icwoip/). + # How to build? ## Install dependency: morse keyer library @@ -44,7 +52,7 @@ For example: # References -## Original post +## Original post by Fernan Bolando (VE4FEB) Copied on 20150103 from http://fernski.blogspot.de/2013/03/internet-relay-morsecode.html > I have been using cwcom to practice sending morsecode, unfortunately my main computer at home is running openbsd and it has gotten harder to gain access to a reliable MS Windows machine. So I wrote my own client that works on openbsd. @@ -69,7 +77,9 @@ Copied on 20150103 from http://fernski.blogspot.de/2013/03/internet-relay-morsec > John Samin - http://www.mrx.com.au/ - ## Resources - - +* CWCom, John Samin (VK1EME): http://www.mrx.com.au/d_cwcom.htm +* Morse KOB, Less Kerr: https://sites.google.com/site/morsekob/ and http://kob.sdf.org/morsekob/ +* Relay server for CW communicator and morse KOB: http://morsecode.dc3.com:7890 +* Sources for the Relay Server: http://sourceforge.net/projects/morse-rss-news/ +* MorseKOB for AT Mega, Fernan Bolando (VE4FEB): http://fernski.blogspot.de/2013/05/sending-morsecode-via-atmega.html