[DSP-10] Trouble Downloading Pointers

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 20:38:00 -0700

Hi Nancy,

Great news! I wouldn't be surprised if some computers have trouble with
running EZFAST from a floppy (having uhf3.EXE on the floppy). It seems to
depend on the caching arrangements. There is certainly not a processor speed
problem. I have used EZFAST and the DSP-10 from a 25 MHz 386 laptop without
math coprocessor! I don't recommend that, it is clumsy to use!

Good luck with getting all that stuff working! It looks like you are close.

73,
Bob

At 10:48 PM 4/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>
>After checking the version of EZFAST, it was identified as having a file
>size of 14237. I tried everything, but I could not get UHFA to load. Then
>I made a boot disk for my laptop. Guess what? IT LOADED!!!
>
>The computer that I was using has an AMD Duron processor running at
>700 MHz, my laptop uses a Pentium (with MMX) processor running at
>200 MHz. I couldn't believe the speed would make that much of a
>difference, but I guess it does. Anyway, since I had planned on using
>the DSP-10 with my laptop, this worked out ok.
>
>It was necessary to change the line in DSP.BAT saying "EZFAST 1
>UHF3.EXE G" to "EZFAST L 1 UHF3.EXE G", without slowing it down,
>I was getting a timeout error. I'm not sure if there are other problems, so
>far I haven't heard any stations and I can't get the transmit light to come
>on, but at least I am now making progress. I'm in the process of reading
>up on it and learning the DOS commands, hopefully that will take care of
>everything. Thanks to you and Bole, I really appreciate all of your help.
>
>73, Nancy NJ8B
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Larkin" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 3:26 AM
>Subject: RE: [DSP-10] Trouble Downloading Pointers
>
>
>> Hi Bole,
>>
>> After seeing Nancy's problem, I remembered another possible reason. It is
>> tucked away in the User's Manual:
>> http://members.ispwest.com/kd7ts/ver3/transceiveroperation.html
>> and points out that the latest version of EZFAST.COM must be used. This
>can
>> be identified by the file size of 14237, as indicated by DIR from a DOS
>> command line.
>>
>> Earlier versions of EZFAST.COM will not load UHF3.EXE properly.
>>
>> Was this what you were seeing?
>>
>> 73,
>> Bob  W7PUA
>>
>> At 07:49 AM 4/8/03 +0200, you wrote:
>> >[snip]
>> >> Sometimes, EZFAST will fail without an obvious error message. The
>User's
>> >> Manual notes of
>> >> http://members.ispwest.com/kd7ts/ver3/transceiveroperation.html
>> >> may be helpful. Sometimes an EZFAST problem relates to running it at
>the
>> >> fastest, default rate. See the EZFAST notes for reducing the speed.
>> >
>> >I had the same problem with EZFAST. I decreases the speed down to only
>9600
>> >bps, but still got that "DSP pointers" error. Then I tried EZLD instead
>of
>> >EZFAST and everything went fine.
>> >
>> >73, Bole, 9A3RR
>> >
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