[Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia

[EricJ]

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 <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-----
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>>> 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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