[amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning!

2011-06-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
In Washington state, this can not happen. See their DOL personalized plate section. Anything like K6LCS K6 LCS are reserved for ham operator plates and will not be issued for personalized. Other states, including Montana, should adopt WA DOL's method of filtering ham call signs. In

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2011-06-29 Thread H. Vordenbaum
...@montana.com To: Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com Cc: AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:24 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! In Washington state, this can not happen. See their DOL personalized plate section. Anything like K6LCS K6 LCS are reserved

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2011-06-29 Thread George and Cheryl Abbott
Bradford Cc: AMSAT BB Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! In Texas we have Radio Plates. I heard that you can have the same call sign on multiple vehicles, so I imagine you could have the same sort of problem if at first glance the vehicle didn't match. Harvey, K5HV Kerrville, TX

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2011-06-29 Thread Joe
of problem if at first glance the vehicle didn't match. Harvey, K5HV Kerrville, TX - Original Message - From: Larry Gerhardsteingerhardst...@montana.com To: Clint Bradfordclintbradf...@mac.com Cc: AMSAT BBamsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:24 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA

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2011-06-29 Thread Dee
To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! Wisconsin is the same way. I can have WB9SBD on my motorcycle, car, truck, van, as many vehicles as i want to have it on. thats gotta be a mess on their computers when they run a plate I would think. never had it happen

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2011-06-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
George and Cheryl, So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. I've never complained about hams getting more privileges, voice, WARC bands, digital modes, LF, etc. Leaves more energy to be concerned about hams possibly loosing privileges. 73, Larry W7IN (57 years

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2011-06-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
Message- From: Larry Gerhardstein Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:02 PM To: George and Cheryl Abbott Cc: H. Vordenbaum ; Clint Bradford ; AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! George and Cheryl, So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call

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2011-06-29 Thread George and Cheryl Abbott
: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:02 PM To: George and Cheryl Abbott Cc: H. Vordenbaum ; Clint Bradford ; AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! George and Cheryl, So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. I've never complained about hams getting more

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2011-06-29 Thread w4upd
. Vordenbaum ; Clint Bradford ; AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! George and Cheryl, So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. I've never complained about hams getting more privileges, voice, WARC bands, digital modes, LF, etc. Leaves more

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2011-06-29 Thread Clint Bradford
... If you make too big of an issue out of this motor vehicle divisions around the country may begin to treat radio operator pates as vanity plates and charge accordingly ... Originally this was almost a joke to me. But then I remember that my wife (who was in the car with me) asked me -

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2011-06-29 Thread Bob Martinson
And Massachusetts QUOTE -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of w4upd Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:57 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! This is already the case in Florida

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2011-06-29 Thread Mike Blazek
...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of w4upd Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 1:57 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! This is already the case in Florida. The Amateur tag is listed as a vanity plate and you are charged accordingly

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2011-06-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
If you have to apply for vanity to get ham letters on your plate, then they're not really ham call letter plates, are they, as they are in Montana and Washington. I stand on all of my prior posts on this matter. 73 es SK, Larry W7IN ___ Sent via

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2011-06-29 Thread Edward R. Cole
: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! George and Cheryl, So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. I've never complained about hams getting more privileges, voice, WARC bands, digital modes, LF, etc. Leaves more energy to be concerned about hams possibly

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2011-06-29 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:13:35 -0700 Clint Bradford clintbradf...@mac.com wrote: Originally this was almost a joke to me. But then I remember that my wife (who was in the car with me) asked me - quite seriously - Is it OK for me to reach into my purse ... while the original officer was

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2011-06-29 Thread Ted
: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! If you have to apply for vanity to get ham letters on your plate, then they're not really ham call letter plates, are they, as they are in Montana and Washington. I stand on all of my prior posts on this matter. 73 es SK, Larry W7IN

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2011-06-29 Thread Nigel A. Gunn
Britain has more CCTV cameras per head of population than anywhere else in the world. Britains airports and military establishments are crawling with armed police and military security staff. As long as the copper on the street here keeps his weapon in it's holster then it's no threat. I can't

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2011-06-29 Thread kf1buz
...@montana.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! ...and Oregon (although they do not say 'ham radio', they are all a light orange color) TK, K7TRK -Original Message- From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Larry

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2011-06-29 Thread Tony Langdon
At 03:57 AM 6/30/2011, w4upd wrote: This is already the case in Florida. The Amateur tag is listed as a vanity plate and you are charged accordingly. This state has hundreds of vanity plates. It's the same down here, amateur plates are a special category of vanity plates, and attract a vanity

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2011-06-29 Thread Larry Gerhardstein
In Montana the ham plates are free plus a small administrative fee. In 1955, there was a ham in the state legislature that got the bill entered and passed. He wrote the free clause into his bill, and except for an administrative fee added later, it has stuck. Montana was one of the first

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2011-06-29 Thread Joe
Ours say right across the top of the plate AMATEUR RADIO, and they do charge extra for them. ANY plate that is special order and not handed out off the top of the pile next in line costs extra. Be it a vanity plate and antiques plate a collector plate a veterans plate a disabled plate get

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2011-06-29 Thread Gordon JC Pearce
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:21:29 +0100 Nigel A. Gunn ni...@ngunn.net wrote: Britain has more CCTV cameras per head of population than anywhere else in the world. That was actually a bit of nonsense written by one of the far-right tabloids (possibly the Daily Mail). Essentially what some greasy

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2011-06-29 Thread John Becker
At 03:45 PM 6/29/2011, you wrote: All this makes me really, really glad I live in a country where we don't have armed thugs on the streets. That is where you are wrong... the thugs will always be armed. when the victim is also armed is makes it a even playing field. When the people here also

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2011-06-29 Thread Jerry
Same here in Arizona, but I don't mind paying the little extra fee. I'm proud of my amateur status. Of course, some hams are just plain cheap! Jerry France K7LY Lake Havasu City, AZ On 6/29/2011 2:49 PM, Tony Langdon wrote: At 03:57 AM 6/30/2011, w4upd wrote: This is already the case in

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2011-06-28 Thread Dee
: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! Just imagine if they had pulled John K8YSE over with that array in the bed of his truck!!! On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Green pagr...@gmail.com wrote: Well, they didn't see you as that big a threat, otherwise they would have *surrounded* you

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2011-06-28 Thread k6yk
Hee Hee... ! I love it.. It's not just ham plates but any of those personalized or special plates that cause confusion. I have run lots of plates that came back invalid, and by doing as you say, putting in spaces, or trying a different category of plate, etc. they will come back OK. Also,

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2011-06-28 Thread George Henry
PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! Hee Hee... ! I love it.. It's not just ham plates but any of those personalized or special plates that cause confusion. I have run lots of plates that came back invalid, and by doing as you say, putting in spaces, or trying a different