Open Rig Programmer v1.0.0

Open Rig Programmer v1.0.0 — an open-source, cross-platform
memory-channel programmer for the Yaesu FT-710, built as a free
alternative to RT Systems' YPS-FT710, with three further Yaesu models
registered read-only.

What it does

• Read every memory channel from the radio over CAT — the 99
  regular memories plus the 9 PMS (Programmable Memory Scan) pairs —
  into a codeplug file you can keep, diff and re-send.
• Edit channels in a spreadsheet-style grid (GUI) with keyboard
  navigation, paste, per-column editors and drag copy/swap/move.
• Send changes back safely (FT-710): read-before-write, a snapshot
  of the radio's existing contents taken before anything changes, a
  reviewed diff you confirm against a digest, and per-channel verify
  after each write. Anything that cannot be written is shown with the
  reason rather than attempted.
• CSV and CHIRP import/export, with a report of anything a CHIRP
  file cannot express.
• Read the radio's menu (EX) settings into the same file and view
  or export them — every documented menu address for the connected
  model (FT-710: 296; FTdx10: 197; FTdx101D/MP: 193).
• Both a desktop GUI and a rigprog CLI, sharing one core.

Supported radios, and what "supported" means for each

Model	Read channels	Write channels	Read menu settings	Evidence
FT-710	Yes	Yes	Yes	Proven against real hardware (docs/hardware-notes.md)
FTdx10	Yes	No — disarmed	Yes	CAT manual + simulator only; no real radio has been connected
FTdx101D	Yes	No — disarmed	Yes	CAT manual + simulator only; no real radio has been connected
FTdx101MP	Yes	No — disarmed	Yes	CAT manual + simulator only; no real radio has been connected

Writes to the three manual-derived models are disarmed in the code
itself (nothing is writable on a real-hardware session), not merely
untested. Each of those drivers carries a register of every assumption
it makes and the specific capture from a real radio that would verify
it — if you own one of these radios and want to help, open an issue.

What it deliberately does not do

• It does not write menu settings, and will not. This is a settled
  design decision taken on evidence, not an unfinished feature — the
  FT-710 CAT manual's menu chart proved wrong in both of the two
  respects a read could check, and nothing in the read direction
  establishes what the radio accepts in the write direction. The
  reasoning, and what would have to change to revisit it, is in
  docs/menu-write-decision.md.
• It cannot erase a channel over CAT. These radios have no CAT
  erase command; the app says so, and tells you the front-panel
  procedure, rather than silently doing nothing.
• It does not read per-channel CTCSS tone frequencies. The FT-710
  does not report them over CAT (established against real hardware —
  docs/hardware-notes.md), so the app preserves whatever is on the
  radio instead of guessing.

Downloads

Platform	What it is	File
macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon, universal)	GUI (.app, zipped)	open-rig-programmer-v1.0.0-darwin-universal.app.zip
macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon, universal)	CLI	rigprog-v1.0.0-darwin-universal.tar.gz
Linux amd64	CLI	rigprog-v1.0.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
Linux arm64	CLI	rigprog-v1.0.0-linux-arm64.tar.gz

There is no Linux GUI AppImage in this release: its build job runs
only on Linux CI, which is not in use for this release. Linux users
have the CLI, or can build the GUI from source (wails build in
app/; see docs/linux-setup.md for the build dependencies).

SHA256SUMS (attached below) covers every file above. Verify with:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

Checking which version you have

rigprog version prints it; the GUI shows it at the right-hand end of
the status bar. Quote that string in any bug report. A build that
reports dev (unreleased build) did not come from this release page —
if you downloaded it here, please say so in the report, because that
would be a packaging fault.

Firmware requirement

Memory CAT (read and write) on the FT-710 requires firmware V01-10
or later. There is no CAT query for the firmware version — check the
radio's front panel or SD-card version screen before connecting.

macOS: first launch

The .app is only ad-hoc signed (no Apple Developer ID), so Gatekeeper
will refuse to open it the ordinary way the first time. In Finder,
right-click (Control-click) the app and choose Open, then confirm
in the dialogue that appears. This is only needed once; after that it
opens normally.

Linux: serial port access

• Add yourself to the dialout group and log out/in (or newgrp dialout) before the CLI can open the radio's serial port:
  sudo usermod -aG dialout "$USER".
• ModemManager can probe a newly-plugged serial adapter and interfere
  with it; excluding the radio's USB-serial bridge from ModemManager
  via udev is recommended. See docs/linux-setup.md for the full
  instructions and a ready-to-use udev rule.

What the hardware evidence covers — read this

Every "works on the radio" claim in this project comes from recorded
sessions against one physical UK FT-710, on macOS, and
docs/hardware-notes.md is the record. Channel reads and writes were
proven on that radio; the menu-settings read was proven separately.
One radio, one region, one firmware version.

What this release has not been exercised against:

• Linux with a real radio. The Linux CLI binaries are
  cross-compiled and version-stamp-verified, and the serial stack is
  the same code, but no real-radio session has been run on Linux yet.
  docs/linux-setup.md carries the port-setup instructions; treat the
  first Linux session as exploratory and read-only first.
• Any FTdx10, FTdx101D or FTdx101MP. Everything about those three
  models is derived from the manufacturer's CAT reference manuals
  through a documented transcription-and-cross-check process, and
  exercised against simulators built independently from the same
  manuals. No real radio of any of the three has ever been connected.
  That is why their writes are disarmed.

Anything the project has not observed is labelled as such in the code
and documentation rather than assumed. Reports from real hardware —
especially the three read-only models, and the FT-710 on Linux — are
the most valuable contribution this project can receive right now.