Description: Program your radio like a pro with Windows programming software for amateur radios and receivers by RT Systems.
You can write your own review of the ADMS-1J for the Yaesu FT-60 FM Transceiver.
My installation of the software, purchased with their cable, was easy. Updates were smooth. One thing to note is that the rig must NOT be locked, in order to download to the radio. Remembering that is my issue, not theirs.
Every time I have had a question the email response has been rapid and spot on. I even had some older software of theirs that used a com port cable - they pointed me to the location of update files in their archives to get it running again. Top marks for that.
My only issue is less than 100% compatibility with Excel in data file storage, and exchange with other model files. I would rate them about 4.8 if it were possible. Rounded up to 5.
I have had the FT60 for several years now. Just never got around to ordering the software. I downloaded other software and also purchased an off brand cable. No dice. It didn't find the com port, all I kept getting ERROR. The ADMS-1J came and what a difference. The CD is full size now. The cable and USB connection are top notch. Well made. I didn't do any updates, just ran the software. Everything works great. Highly recommended.
I thought this would be the solution for simple, quick programming of multiple HTs.
Right out of the box, the TTL cable was bad. No problem, a couple of weeks later, with some follow up phone calls - IE. "OK we agree the cable is BAD, how do I get it replaced?!" One showed up, the new, improved version, no adapter needed to interface with the FT-60's socket. Great... now I can get down to it.
My radios had been CLONED by another member of CERT (Community Emergency Response Team), and some of the data was incorrect, tones, offsets - just needed a few additions & corrections.
Downloaded the data, "hey, that's neat, everything on a simple to use spreadsheet!" (It seemed worth the wait...) I made my changes and went to upload. ERROR! Wouldn't take it...?! Several attempts, and finally success - everything looked good.
Next radio - no such luck. Same radio, purchased the same time, but the program said there was a hardware compatibility issue...? Over the next 2 hours, I tried everything, printed out the spreadsheet, downloaded from the 2nd radio, edited, tried to upload, downloaded from radio #1 & upload to radio #2 - it would not work.
"...OK, I'll just CLONE it with a CLONE cable... What's this???! Everything has been wiped out of the radio! It's not just wiped clean, it's totally wiped clean!"
Maybe it was just the radio... So I plugged in radio #3 - and basically repeated the same result.
Back to radio #1... Yep, upload and download, no problem. Wonderful, now I have 2 deprogrammed non-functioning radios.
End result - put it all back in the box, and circular filed the cable & CD - wrote it off as a $40 mistake. We did manage to restore the other 2 radios, but not with this software/cable. Save your $40 and just program it the tried and true method - it won't kill you and might spare you a real headache.
I purchased this product in order to take the pain out of programming the FT-60 manually.
By the way, to update an earlier review, RT Systems now ships all its software on full size CDs.
This is a pretty impressive package.
I followed the directions, installed the program on my computer, entered data, then followed the directions to clone. It all worked. It even found my com port.
Everything was pretty easy. Just make sure to save your data entered.
I am recommending this software to some fellow HAM's.
The usual RT Systems software - the engine was written years ago it seems, and they simply modify it for whatever new radio comes along.
It's annoyingly hard to use, but it does work.
Why is it that commercial ham software is so miserably backwards? The concept of editing one line by putting up a dialog box is so 1990's.
The program works as advertised. What I didn't like about the software is that it is shipped on a small CD and not all computers will read small CD's. If you attempt to copy the program to a full size CD, the install will fail because the serial number is tied to the install media. This stinks. I wanted to keep this program on my older IBM laptop and I cannot.
I'll be concise: ADMS-1J works well, but in case you want to export a radio data file in tab-separated format, edit it, and then import the file then get this: Tone Mode settings are exported as "Enc (Tone)". If you import a file with that setting, then ADMS-1J will not read them correctly. So in your editor (or spreadsheet) change all occurances of "Enc (Tone)" to Enc and it'll work correctly.