[Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia

[Jeff Stai]

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 <Hamshack at 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-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net>
> On Behalf Of Rose
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:56
> To: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at 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
>
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