ham tools

A collection of little tools I've written to help me with amateur radio stuff.

My motivation for this was originally that CHIRP didn't support the FT-991a, so I figured that equipped with the CAT manual for it, I could put together a script easily enough to program memories on this radio via CAT.

• ft991a - Tool to read/write channel memory and settings to a FT-991a over the CAT serial protocol
• cat_shell - REPL shell for your radio. Type in a CAT command, and it'll print the response
• rig_meters - Show meters from the radio, read from rigctld - input signal strength, ALC, SWR, and output RF power. Saves you from having to flip between the various meters on the radio.

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/nickpegg/ham_tools.git

Example usage

First, dump your radio's existing memories to a CSV file:

ft991a read memory

Then, edit the CSV file it wrote the memories to, adding stations or making changes.

Now, write the memories from the CSV back to the radio:

ft991a write memory

Development

After cloning the repo, run make init to install all of the dependencies.

The CLI tools are all defined in the [tool.poetry.scripts] section in the pyproject.toml file. You can run each one with poetry run, for example: poetry run ft991a -h.

make fmt will run code formatters, make test will run the standard suite of tests. Just running make will run both of these.

There are some integration tests which require a real Yaesu FT-991a to be plugged in via USB, these can be ran with make integration. You should make sure that other programs aren't trying to use the radio at the same time, like you should stop rigctl, WSJT-X, etc.

TODO

Features

• Read/write memory channels
• Read/write CTCSS tones and DCS codes along with memory
• read/write memory to/from CSV
• Add memory writing to CLI
• ft991a - Menu settings read/write - tough because types are so different between settings
• rig_meters - Make meter value red when over limit

Log Manager

• ADIF parser/merger
• CLI tool to merge ADIFs and manage a central log
• simple web UI for manual logging
• Push logs to LOTW
• Push logs to ClubLog
• Push logs to eQSL