Program your radio in minutes. Not evenings.
Hamilton Radio Programmer reads your handheld over the cable, lets you edit channels in plain English, and writes them back — with every frequency, offset, and tone done right. Supports 551 radio models, including the Baofengs everyone actually owns.
A map makes things even better 🌎 — you can add repeaters and find frequencies and their setup around you with one click!
The magic part: repeaters find you
This is what Hamilton Pro is for. Open the Repeater Map, and the repeaters around you appear — live data, not a stale database. Traveling? Search any city before you go.
- One click adds them all — every repeater within your search radius drops into your radio’s channel list with frequency, offset, direction, and CTCSS tone all set correctly. The part that used to take a whole evening with a manual.
- Always current — repeater data comes live from the RepeaterBook directory at the moment you search. New repeater in town? It’s already on your map. Nothing to update, ever.
- Smart band-plan defaults — type a repeater frequency by hand and Hamilton applies the standard offset for the band automatically.
- Your radios, remembered — every radio you read is saved. Edit at your desk, write to the radio when you plug in.
How it works
- Plug in your programming cable and turn the radio on.
- Click Read from Radio — your channels load in seconds.
- Open the Repeater Map, search your area, click Add all results to radio.
- Click Write to Radio. Done. Go make contacts.
Hamilton Pro
Hamilton Pro unlocks the Repeater Map with live search and one-click programming. The core app — reading, editing, and writing your radio — is free, forever. Pro activation happens right inside the app, on the Repeater Map screen.
Download
macOS — Download for Mac
Windows — Download Windows 10/11, 64-bit
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Windows may show a notice for new publishers — click “More info” then “Run anyway.”
Free to download and use. Pro features unlock inside the app.
Questions hams ask
Does it work without internet?
Everything involving your radio — reading, editing, writing, your saved radios — works fully offline. The Repeater Map needs an internet connection for live data.
Which radios are supported?
551 models — Baofeng, Yaesu, Kenwood, Icom, Anytone, Quansheng, TYT, Wouxun, Radioddity and many more.
What about repeaters outside the United States?
Repeater data comes from the live RepeaterBook directory, with coverage expanding worldwide.
I got a new computer — is my license stuck?
No. Log in to your account here, click “Reset activations,” and activate on the new machine. Takes ten seconds.
Hamilton Radio Programmer is part of the Hamilton family of free ham radio tools. Radio drivers powered by the open-source CHIRP engine, © the CHIRP contributors (GPL). Repeater data © RepeaterBook.