Our less-than-formal ham club - The Lupton Downs Amateur Radio Club - was pleased to obtain our club callsign, W6NAG.
Sounds pretty good on CW too. -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!" > On Jul 16, 2018, at 2:37 PM, EricJ <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A urologist in my town had "PPMD" on his Porsche about 40 years ago. Long ago > retired. > > Eric KE6US (not vanity) > > >> On 7/16/2018 2:28 PM, Rick WA6NHC wrote: >> My all time favorite is still "4X4X8" >> >> It was on a Honda Accord... >> >> (the measurements of "a 'cord'" of firewood). >> >> In the far distant past, the plate on a Datsun read "Dashes"... CW op >> obviously >> >> Rick nhc >> >> >>> On 7/16/2018 12:41 PM, Jeff Stai wrote: >>> Years ago I was working with a catering dept at a hotel to set up a >>> conference. I met the new manager named Kate, and it was decided to >>> continue the meeting over lunch. We walked to where her car was parked and >>> I noticed her Ohio license plate: K8WYT. I asked, "Oh, are you an amateur >>> radio operator?" She said, "No. That's me. Kate White." >>> >>> 73 jeff wk6i >>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Jim - N4ST <hamsh...@n4st.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Years ago, during the 70's gas rationing in Maryland, I found I could get >>>> gas on either odd or even days with my AA3O license plate. >>>> ____________ >>>> 73, >>>> Jim - N4ST >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> >>>> On Behalf Of Rose >>>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:56 >>>> To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> >>>> Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia >>>> >>>> Montana has a $25 vanity plate fee, regardless of what the plate "says", >>>> -but- ham radio plates are exempt. >>>> >>>> BUT … I had a very difficult time convincing the local county folks that >>>> my "K0PP" plates were -not- the usual vanity plate they were used to >>>> issuing. It took a 200 mile trip to the state motor vehicle office with a >>>> copy of the Callbook and the FCC Part 97 in hand to get the matter >>>> resolved. >>>> >>>> At the time the prison tag shop foreman was a ham. They had no slant zero >>>> die and he made my first plate by hand with a strip of tape across a zero. >>>> He told me I was the first "zero" plate they had made … the die they >>>> subsequently purchased cost $97. >>>> >>>> Montana renews a plate with an adhesive expiration date sticker and does >>>> not issue a new plate each year. >>>> >>>> 73! >>>> >>>> Ken Kopp - K0PP >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> Elecraft mailing list >>>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to wk6i.j...@gmail.com >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to eric.c...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mike.flow...@gmail.com -- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!" > On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Charlie T <pin...@erols.com> wrote: > > Yes, and I have TWO of them here in Virginia. > One says K3ICH and the other one is K31CH. > They don't know ham calls at the DMV (HI). > > 73, Charlie k3ICH > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net <elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net> On > Behalf Of Nr4c > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 11:49 AM > To: dyarnes <w7...@cox.net> > Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Vanity Calls > > In Virginia it’s not a vanity plate and only costs one dollar more than > regular plates. > > Sent from my iPhone > ...nr4c. bill > > >> On Jul 16, 2018, at 9:30 AM, dyarnes <w7...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> My call (W7AQK) is designated as a vanity call even though it is the >> original call assigned to me back in 1955. Under past FCC rules, I had to >> give it up when I moved to a different call area. That actually happened >> twice! The first time I reacquired this call it cost me nothing! FCC just >> reassigned it to me as a previous holder. However, in the early 90’s, when >> I decided I wanted my original call again, and I was again in the 7th call >> district, I had to do so under the vanity program, and pay extra for it too! >> Even renewals were subject to a special fee! Now that has changed, >> thankfully. However, I still somewhat resent the fact that my call is >> considered a vanity call, even though I am a previous holder of it, and also >> that, at one time, I would have been reissued this call by “rights”. >> >> While I’m grousing about “vanity” issues, our Arizona Department of >> Transportation allows me to have a “vanity” license plate with my call on >> it. I pay an extra $25 for that, presumably to cover the cost of special >> processing. However, I have to pay that same $25 every time I renew! >> Why??? It doesn’t cost them anything extra once the plate has been made and >> issued!!! Seems a bit unfair to me! >> >> Dave W7AQK >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email >> list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to >> n...@widomaker.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message > delivered to pin...@erols.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to mike.flow...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
