Kojak27

Looks like Geocaching was in the spotlight in Ottawa! Check link below. http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/07...28.html?ref=rss

How handy are you with soldering irons? I wasn't gonna waste $40+shipping for a $2 cable, plus I didn't want to wait for a week, so I ended up making my own cable with a serial plug and a stereo jack for my Garmin Foretrex. I got the pin configuration from this site: http://pinouts.ru/DevicesCables/garmin_foretrex_pinout.shtml Worked like a charm. I had a 9-pin serial plug and a stereo plug both came from a box of surplus cables I kept over the years. In the end, it took me half an hour to put it together, just soldering the right connections together. As for the USB part, I'm not sure that the software you run (GSAK?) that would communicate with your Garmin would recognize your GPSr as being connected to your USB port (it would look for a COM (serial) port, not a USB). But I leave that one to the experts. I know GSAK can do many wonders, after all.

In my case I never use child waypoints - those would just clutter up my 1 square-inch Foretrex screen. It's hard enough to read when I'm barreling down on my bicycle at 30 mph down a fire road. But the extra tips are good to know anyways. Thanks all.

Thanks Doc. Will try that.

Good day geocachers of the world! My Garmin Foretrex101 has a 6-digit waypoint name field, a field which now has difficulty posting new 7-digit (GCXXXXX) waypoint codes. I thought this would be no problem until I went out caching for two caches near each other that had the same waypont code except the last digit - One of the caches didn't show up on my GPS as the last digit of both caches was truncated, and my receiver thought I was downloading the same cache twice, leaving one of them out... What I'd like to do is send the waypoints from Gsak, sending only the last 6 (or even 5) significant digits. The "G" and the "C" are totally useless to me. Does anyone know how to do this? Cheers! Happy caching.

Lots of wind, especially if I had McD for breakie.

Best state to cache in? State of Intoxication of course! Just kidding. Don't you drink and drive now! Seriously, Pennsylvania would rock methinks.