The nice thing about RS232 connections is that you can mess

up the wiring

and you won't hurt anything. I need to wire up a gender

mender in order to

get my GPS to work with the IPAQ. There are gender menders

out there but

they won't work because they don't cross over the TXD and

RXD cables.  If

you can find one that comes apart you might buy the tool

the pushes the pins

out so that you can move them on one of the DB9 connectors.

Hopefully this will get you started.

Del, look for a "breakout" connector, a tiny box with the two

connectors and jumpers, great for this stuff.

...Chrissi

Here is a hint folks. Only two wires are needed. One is ground.
The GPS transmits only and the Ipaq receives only.

TX out of the GPS and RX into the Ipaq.

I didn't cover it in my last note but I'm using a RJ-11 phone jack on the
Garmin that plugs into the back side of a DB9 female connector/RJ-11
converter.  I didn't want the big DB9 connector hanging from the cord when
all I originally used if for was to load a new database.  To get it working
with the IPAQ, I bought a DB9 male/RJ-11 connector with the wires/pins not
inserted.  I just need to get around to finishing the job.

When I'm not working on the airplane I have been working on writing a
Windows CE application that will monitor both the GPS and Pic or Cypress
Microsystem processors that read engine pressure and temperature parameters.
I plan to integrate the GPS data through the microprocessors and provide a
composite stream of data to the Windows CE for display or monitoring.  There
will be a Serial port service application that will notify different screen
applications when the different pieces of data arrive from the serial port.
I've written some code but the airplane construction is currently taking a
higher priority.

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