Gday again, Mitch and ladies of the Vibroplex Company.

  I have just returned from the 2006 Back to Morse Week at Alice Springs where the tourists to the Old Telegraph Station are invited to send a free telegram to anywhere in Australia. The telegram is received on a special commemorative originating form and then we transmit them to Adelaide using a Morse key (in my case my Vibroplex Blue Racer 2000) and a Post Office Sounder via a modem over a standard telephone line with the same equipment at the Adelaide end. The telegrams are then put in a commemorative envelope and by courtesy of Australia Post are delivered to the letter-box of the addressee.

  A lot of the tourists are from the USA and they were very happy and intrigued to see me using one of "their" machines and were amazed when I told them that you people were still manufacturing them.

  I use an extra weight to slow down the speed of the dots so that the mechanical armature of the sounder can follow the signals ok. Without exception, I received excellent comment from the receiving operators on the quality of the signals from the Vibroplex.

  I peruse your website regularly and it is up to date and excellent just like the quality of workmanship in the Vibroplex products.

  I am that pleased that the Blue Racer - I am seriously thinking of giving myself another present in the form of a gold plated Presentation model; do you have any specials going on the Original Presentation or the Original Deluxe that might happen to have my name on it - ha.

  Keep up the good work and if you could please me an ack of receipt I will know that my transmission has been received.

  Kind regards to all . . . George Brown from down-under.