[Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia

[Jim - N4ST]

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.
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73,
Jim - N4ST

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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:56
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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