GP300 Programming...

[ScubaSteve89]

Good Day,

First off, my apologies for posting this subject as it's probably been discussed a million times but I am truely stuck in the mud.

I have the connection set for linking to the computer via com port.
I have around 10 GP300s
I have 4 or 5 different versions of the programming software.

But I'm not sure of the maximum specification the computer can be?

It is my understanding I require MS-DOS 6.22?

Any help, or links to a guide would be appreciated. I have half a team who can't use their radios yet and would like to find a solution soon...

Regards

Steve

[N6LAU]

Can you provide a little more info? What speed is the processor of the computer you intend to use? Have you attempted programing and run into issues or are you just looking for clarification before you try?

Joe

[Jim202]

Good Day,

First off, my apologies for posting this subject as it's probably been discussed a million times but I am truely stuck in the mud.

I have the connection set for linking to the computer via com port.
I have around 10 GP300s
I have 4 or 5 different versions of the programming software.

But I'm not sure of the maximum specification the computer can be?

It is my understanding I require MS-DOS 6.22?

Any help, or links to a guide would be appreciated. I have half a team who can't use their radios yet and would like to find a solution soon...

Regards

Steve

Your right, the software runs in only pure DOS. Not under Windows in a DOS box. The slower the better for the computer speed. It has been a number of years and I no longer have any of those portables to play with to say just how fast a computer they will program with.

You will need a RIB and the programming cable. You will also need a power supply to provide the 7.5 volts the portable will need while your trying to program it. The program adapter takes the place of the battery and needs to have the 7.5 volts applied to it either from a wall wart or external DC supply.

One point to ponder here is I don't believe these portables can legally be narrow banded. So come January 1st, 2013, you won't be able to use them on the business or public safety channels.



Jim

[AEC]

I have zero problems with DOS 6.22 and a 200 Mhz CPU, I have also had no problems with even faster CPU speeds programming the GP300/110 as the RSS has no software timing issues like the Maxtrac has.
Later versions of 'Trac RSS eliminated this software problem and the GM300 doesn't suffer like previous versions.
You should think of disabling any cache functions you have enabled, this assists with calls to the UART which DOS uses specifically during programming.
Other than these few problems, you should be able to program your radios with relative ease.
But as Jim stated, the radios will be good for amateur use only since they will be economically useless for narrowbanding.
Narrowbanding via the half deviation trick isn't worth the effort.

[ScubaSteve89]

Thanks for your quick replies. Sadly I was away over the weekend and unable to respond until now.

I'm not 100% sure of the speed of my processor but I believe it to be a pentium MMX machine which has a copy of windows 98 on it currently.

From my internet searching, I'm under the impression I am able to run it using windows 98's "MS-DOS mode for Games with EMS and XMS support".

Everything connects up fine, there is power supplied to the rib but I think the software I am using might be out of date... using a version that came with a ebay sale on one of the radios. I think R05... From memory as I am at work, I believe I was getting a #2 error when trying to read the radios.

[Will]

The GP300 RSS listed IS Pentium comparable.

GP300/GP350 HVN-9128D Feb-97 Yes