[Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia

[Rick WA6NHC]

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 <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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