My poor man CW interface
When I got involved in ham radio I was soon fascinated by CW, so I learnt Morse code and started making contacts. A few days ago I participated as a station in an award and decided to try out working some station in CW instead of my usual SSB operation. I soon got tired of sending CQ and reports by hand so I started thinking of making a CW interface with what I had at the moment. The logging program I use is CQRLOG under Ubuntu 16.04. Because I did not want to risk burning my rig I decided to use the interface I usually work digital modes with because it was insulated. This is basically a couple of insulation transformers for audio in/out and an optocoupler for the PTT signal. The latter is keyed via RTS of an RS-232 port connected to the USB of my laptop trough a converter. What I did was simply to connect the PTT of the interface to the KEY port of my FT 817. Now the software part: modulating CW trough RTS and not TX as usually done. After a bit of searching I found that cwdaemon