A free memory-channel programmer for Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood radios.
Read the radio's memories into a file, edit them in a grid or a
spreadsheet, and send them back over the radio's ordinary USB cable.
A desktop app and a command-line tool, rigprog, for macOS, Windows
and Linux. It imports and exports CSV, including CHIRP's, reads before
it writes, shows every change for approval, and reads each channel back
after writing it. Nothing is deleted and no menu setting is changed.
This started as a programmer for my own FT-710, and the FT-710 is still the only radio it has ever been connected to. Reading and writing there are verified on the real thing.
Many other radios have been added since, built from the makers' own published protocol manuals and tested against simulators. Reading them is safe. Writing stays switched off until you switch it on for that radio, and every write is previewed, snapshotted and read back.
| Radio | Read | Write |
|---|---|---|
| FT-710 | ✅ | ✅ verified on a real radio |
| FTdx10, FTdx101D, FTdx101MP, FT-891, FT-991A, FTdx5000, FT-2000, FT-2000D, FTdx9000, FT-950, FTdx3000, FTdx1200, FT-450D | ✅ | |
| IC-7610, IC-7300, IC-7300MK2, IC-705, IC-9700, IC-905, IC-7851, IC-7850, IC-7760, IC-7100, IC-7800, IC-7600, IC-7410, IC-7700, IC-9100, IC-7200 | ✅ | |
| IC-R8600 (a receiver) | ✅ | |
| TS-590S, TS-590SG | ✅ | |
| TS-890S, TS-990S | ✅ | |
| TS-2000, TS-2000X, TS-B2000 | ✅ | |
| TS-570D, TS-570S, TS-570DG (UNVERIFIED-BY-INHERITANCE — see radio-notes.md) | ✅ | |
| TS-870S | ✅ |
Per-radio detail, including where the program is guessing, is in docs/radio-notes.md.
If you own one of the opt-in radios, please try it and say how it
went. A report from a real radio is the most useful thing anyone can
send. Open an issue with the output of
rigprog version and rigprog probe; one channel's line from a read
is plenty, since a whole memory file carries your callsign.
Everything is on the Releases page, with a
SHA256SUMS file to check any download.
- macOS: unzip the app. Releases published here are signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple, so it opens like any other download.
- Windows: run the installer for your machine (amd64 or ARM64). SmartScreen will say Windows protected your PC: click More info, then Run anyway. docs/windows-setup.md covers the serial driver.
- Linux: on Debian, Ubuntu or Mint,
sudo apt install ./<file>.deb; on Fedora or openSUSE,sudo dnf install ./<file>.rpm(built but untested on a real Fedora install); on any other distribution with Flatpak,flatpak install --user ./<file>.flatpak(amd64 and aarch64 bundles are both published). Elsewhere, the tarball is a single static binary. docs/linux-setup.md covers thedialoutgroup and ModemManager.
Choose the radio and the port, connect (or pick Demo to try it with a simulated radio), read, edit in the grid, then Send. The radio's USB adapter appears as two serial ports and only one answers. The FT-710 needs firmware V01-10 or later.
The command line does the same job for scripts and backups:
rigprog read --port /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART --out radio.json # save the memories
rigprog write --port /dev/cu.SLAB_USBtoUART edited.json # preview, then sendrigprog help lists the rest. Add --model IC-7300 for another radio,
or --fake for the simulator.
The app asks the first time you connect to one of these radios, and its Unverified writes… button opens the list at any time. On the command line:
rigprog settings unverified-writes IC-7610 on # allow writes to the IC-7610Permission changes what the program may send, not how carefully it sends it.
docs/developing.md covers building from source, the repository layout, the evidence records and releasing; CHANGELOG.md lists what changed in each release. The wiki is the user manual: getting started per platform, the grid, import and export, reading and writing, and a page per radio family.
GPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE. This program comes without any warranty. If you connect it to your transceiver, you do so entirely at your own risk; the authors accept no liability for damage to your radio, its firmware or its memory contents.