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G7MIW
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Rating: 1/5
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Oct 25, 2008 23:03
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OK
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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It does have some basic floors and is totally different to ADMS-2I but it beats the crap out of programming the 8900 manually.
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KD0DIO
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Rating: 0/5
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Mar 31, 2008 16:32
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DONT BUY
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I JUST BOUGHT THIS SOFTWARE TODAY. Bad. out of the box i had the old vesion (small cd). so i had to contact them to get a downloadable version. ive had 6 attempts and get time out error. I finally got it work once. so i resent to the radio again to make sure it works. same problem. what a waste of money. dont buy this software.
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N2JKV
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Rating: 2/5
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Aug 15, 2007 11:20
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Unreliable
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Time owned: 6 to 12 months
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I bought this about 9 months ago. Installed and it worked about 2 days. Then I got a popup message saying it doesn't initialize and must be reinstalled. I reinstall and it works. Programmed radio extensively, so I set it and forgot it...so to speak. Now, months later I want to use it and I get that same damn error message, only now I can't find the tiny little CD. Tech support is NO HELP at all. Their solution is to "buy another copy". What kind of customer relations is that?
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KB0RDL
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Rating: 1/5
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Jun 23, 2007 03:56
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Very Disappointing
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have had ADMS software for four Yaesu radios over several years and in one case it worked most of the time, another it worked intermittently and in the other two cases not at all. I couldn't get the radio and computer to communicate with one another. If they used a USB connection and spent more time working the bugs out it might be better but I'll have to see it to believe it.
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KD7CAO
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Rating: 0/5
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Jun 16, 2005 23:26
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Terrible Software
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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You know I purchased this software along with the cables for my IC-2100h and IC-W32A back in '99 and 2K. I was dissapointed with it then, and I am sure glad that I read these reviews. It is dissapointing to see that the Radio Manufactures are still supporting this company by providing them with exclusive rights to the programming source code. Can you believe this company still designs their software for computers that run a Serial Port? Or how about the fact that the software doesn't even come on a CD Rom, it is still on Floppy Disk! This makes me sick. I realize as a computer Technician that some people out there have older notebooks. But the fact is most of us use newer equipment. My computers don't even have a floppy drive anymore. My new notebook doesn't even have a serial port. And the software doesn't recognize com port 9 that my Belkin serial adapter creates. This is not worth the money either. Wait for someone to design a USB adapter, and software that will work... How about one that can program many radios rather than just one! Another great feature would be the ability to program any radio!
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N0FPE
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Rating: 4/5
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Apr 11, 2005 16:23
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Works for me...
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Time owned: more than 12 months
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I have used the ADMS software for radios as far back as the FT-51r handheld. I have right now the software for the FT-897, FT-8900 and the VX2R. Never had a single problem. I have also used the software for the VX5R, FT-23r,and VX1R. I can say that I never tried to us the software for the FT-8900 on the FT-8800 so I have no idea if it works. IThe only draw backs I have ever had was that even though the software is windows based it is still hard to used sometimes, no speed keys and the like. Thats why i give it a 4. Time out errors are most likely caused by bad cable or bad connection to the jack on the radio itself, thats what I have found over the years.
IMHO Dan
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WF6O
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Rating: 1/5
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Apr 11, 2005 14:37
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Want to waste time? Use this software
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Tried numerous times to upload to my new FT-8800... got a "communications timeout" error every time. Finally wound up programming manually and then thought, "Maybe I can DOWNLOAD my memories!" HA! It wiped out all of the memories and I had to program it manually, all over again. Nice cable though!
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WA2FAA
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Rating: 5/5
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Jan 17, 2005 16:42
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Works Great
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I just received the package from UPS. Installed on the Dell notebook, connected to radio via cable. Selected com 1, downloaded what I already had on radio. Made some changes and additions, then reloaded back to radio. All works as stated. Not a single glitch. I have been using this ADMS software since the FT-51R. Once ran, and found no bugs, all was well. I now have 2H, 2I, 2D and 1G. And all work as advertised. What can I say.
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WA3HLP
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Rating: 0/5
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Dec 18, 2004 16:10
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RT software for FT857
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I recently purchased the software and cable for my FT857 and FT897 from RT systems. I purchased thes serial cable and serial to USB adapter. I have tried and tried and can't get the computer to talk to the radio. I've checked com ports, data rate, and on and on and on. I've never had trouble with any of their software in the past. Any ideas out there?
Randy
WA3HLP@ptd.net
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K3UOD
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Rating: 4/5
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Jul 9, 2004 08:51
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It works just fine for me.
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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Based on the previous reviews, I bought the Yaesu ADMS-2H software just to get the cable. But, since I paid for the software, I decided to try it out.
I ordered it from Universal Radio and it was delivered yesterday. I loaded it into the computer, hooked up the cable to the radio, selected COM1, followed the instructions for turning on the radio in clone mode, and read the radio's memories.
Everything that I had manually programmed into the radio appeared on the computer screen.
Then I used the program to add a few repeaters, some weather channels and VHF Marine channels. I used the name feature to display the marine channel numbers vice the frequencies.
Then I wrote the data to the radio, following the instructions on the screen. I recycled the power on the radio and all of the frequencies that I had programed on the computer were now on the radio and the marine channel numbers were displayed on those channels.
The program did what I wanted it to do. The only problem was when I clicked in a blank cell in the OFFSET FREQ column it wouldn't let me do anything else until I attempted to enter an offset. Then I get a message that I had to enter a receive freq first so I clicked in the receive field. Once I had done that, I was able to click receive fields on other rows and continue on with my work. This is the reason I gave the program a 4 and it's a pretty minor glitch once you figure out how to get out of it.
I did go to RL's website and download the patch, but the description of the patch sounded like all minor fixes.
I don't understand why so many people seem to be having problems with this software.
Granted, I didn't go into some of the features like the dimmer control; but, I'm really interested in adding, deleting and organizing the frequencies. The software does that just fine.
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