programming M-PA scan PAZTDX

[yoshiegg]

Hello, I have acquired a M-PA scan radio paztdx. I have the cable that connects the radio to the serial port, I also mpa 11.1 Dos program. I connect the radio, power on and it displays URP 9600. I configured the software selecting scan type and 800Mhz range. F10 to back out and then F6 to read the radio first.

It will display "Beginning radio handshake sequence" then turn to "Reading radio personality" then read failed :/

No combination seems to work. I took it one step and connected to a RS232 serial port analyzer on the comm port and I can see the radio appear to dump it's personality as the byte count is rather large. However the MPA software doesn't appear to pick it up.

I ran the dos software on DosBox emulator, I slowed down the CPU cycles to truly emulate a computer of that nature this software was intended for.

Can somone out there tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

 

[cozmo]

Mpa scan

It sounds like you have a EDACS radio. 11.1 DOS is for conv radios only will not work for EDACS.
Use EDACS 1, 2 ,3,or EDACS 4 Programmer software.

 

[dsw760]

I believe you have to use true DOS, not a dos emulator, for the software to program the radio properly. If you can find a Windows 98 computer and boot up into DOS before Windows starts up it will work that way.

You can try the Yahoo M-PA group at GE-Mpa : GE-Mpa to see if they have any suggestions.