[Elecraft] Vibroplex - seen on ABC Pan Am (OT)

[Ken Alexander]

Never been a big fan of bugs and the mangled code most people send with 
them.  But since we're barrelling off topic, I DO like the Rolex GMT 
Master a few slides previous.  I bought one for $35 from a watch vendor 
on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok a few years ago.  It ran for the next 2  
years then quit.

It's main distinguishing feature was that it said "Oyster Pertual Date" 
instead of Perpetual.  I wore it on the flight home and got stopped in 
Customs in Toronto.  "Where'd you get the Rolex?"  I laughed, took it 
off and handed it to the guy and said it cost $35.  Then I told him he 
could keep it if he wanted to.  He grinned, handed it back and I was on 
my way!

73,

Ken Alexander
VE3HLS


On 29/10/2011 12:09 AM, Mike Morrow wrote:
>> Noted last episode a Vibroplex or similar was used
>> to send a telegram or cablegram
>>
>> http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/pan-am/jet-setter/104a-cablegram
> I wonder if, by the early 1960s, there were **any** commercial
> aircraft radiotelegrapher positions still used on US airlines.  The
> Element 7 Aircraft Radiotelegraph Endorsement to the First or Second
> Class Radiotelegraph License was still available from the FCC even in
> the mid-1980s.  But that was likely more than 25 years after all such
> positions had ceased to exist.
>
> Mike / KK5F
>
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