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    Looking for eTrex cables

    in Canada

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    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.

    Changing Waypoint Codes from 7 to 6 digits

    in GPS technology and devices

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    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.

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