[Yaesu] FT-1500 2m mobile help wanted

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> I'm mulling over getting the ADMS programming software for my FT-1500 2m
rig.
> Has anyone used this software?

I've used ADMS for by FT-8100

> Where do you get the cable for this locally? Rat Shack?

You get a cable with the software when you buy the software.

> Any problems using it?

No problems at all here - ADMS works like a charm -- handles extended
frequencies and all the functions of the radio -- I don't know about the
1500 but the 8100 would be a S.O.B. to program without it.

> I picture having to pull the rig from the truck, set up on a
> gel-cell battery, bring it next to the computer and dump
> a data file into it.  Is that how it works?

That's pretty much the way it works unless you have a laptop you can use to
run the software.  I keep a copy of the software loaded on an old DOS laptop
(a 386 system) that I use almost exclusively for programming my various
radios.

Many kinds of radio programming software has problems programming radios
from today's faster systems or problems running and accessing the com port
under 32-bit windows.  I don't know if ADMS can interface with the radio
from a modern computer or not because I've never tried it from my desktop
systems -- the software runs fine on my Win98 (500MHz PIII) and WindowsXP
(1.8GHz P4) systems but I put the data file onto a floppy and use the 386
laptop to actually load the radio.