>Being in Australia it is really hard to get samples locally. It is bit of a
>Joke really. Microchip  will not send samples to Australia and the local
>distributors are hopeless. over the last 18 months I have requested samples
>of all the latest released PICs and the only one's that I have ever received
>where the 18Fx520 parts. And this was three months after they have been
>released as production parts!

I've can't understand why they don't ship to Australia. US -> Australia post
is very good and generally pretty cheap. But anyway...

What I've done in the past is to get a friend / associate in the US to
request the samples then they ship them on to me and I pay them the shipping.
Costs me about $10au. Only takes an extra ~7days on top of what it takes
Microchip to send the samples to the person in the US. But certainly sounds a
lot quicker than requesting them yourself.

Michael
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