NorthWest Arkansas Cachers

I have a console cable used to manage Cisco network equipment and found the pinout herehttp://www.allpinouts.org/index.php/Cisco_Console_RJ45_to_DB9_Pin_Cable

I cut the rj45 end off and followed the instructions I found here. http://www.jens-seiler.de/etrex/datacable.html

I have tried and tried, re-doing the wires several times, and still cannot get the "Send to GPS" function from geocaching.com to work

Has anyone had any luck making their own data cable? I'm not extremely cheap, just curious and want to make this work

Never tried that. A data cable came with my eTrex and has never given any problems. I don't see why it wouldn't work though.

Have you tried uploading using it with either easygps or with GSAK. I've never used gc.com's "Send to GPS" so I'm not familiar with it.

I notice on the dude's web site he talks about a $50 data cable. That's crazy!! You can buy them all day long on ebay for $10 or so.

I doubled the amount of wire sticking through the holes, twisted them and used a different way of securing them to the card I used.

Working great now!

I'll try to snap some pics and get some directions written up if anyone is interested!

All right. Good to hear you got it working.