Finally got around to trying this and made it through just fine. I used a male micro-usb cable (samsung makes some very flat ones) as the header and a female end spliced onto the CA-42.
Thank you all for the guides that made this relatively easy. The hardest two parts were the driver for my chinese clone of a cable (PL2303_Prolific_GPS_AllInOne_1013.exe) and finding the recommended firmware since everywhere I looked said "these are not recommended", which I found here thanks to jm77's post.
For anyone else looking for the firmware, look for the most up to date version for the senao-ESR9752SC.