[Elecraft] Vanity Calls

Mon Jul 16 17:46:56 EDT 2018

Our less-than-formal ham club - The Lupton Downs Amateur Radio Club - was pleased to obtain our club callsign, W6NAG. 

Sounds pretty good on CW too. 

-- Mike Flowers, K6MKF, NCDXC - "It's about DX!"

> On Jul 16, 2018, at 2:37 PM, EricJ <eric.csuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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-----
>>>> 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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> On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Charlie T <pincon at erols.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, and I have TWO of them here in Virginia.  
> One says K3ICH and the other one is K31CH.
> They don't know ham calls at the DMV (HI).
> 
> 73, Charlie k3ICH
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Nr4c
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 11:49 AM
> To: dyarnes <w7aqk at cox.net>
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Vanity Calls
> 
> In Virginia it’s not a vanity plate and only costs one dollar more than regular plates. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> ...nr4c. bill
> 
> 
>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 9:30 AM, dyarnes <w7aqk at cox.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> My call (W7AQK) is designated as a vanity call even  though it is the original call assigned to me back in 1955.  Under past FCC rules, I had to give it up when I moved to a different call area.  That actually happened twice!  The first time I reacquired this call it cost me nothing!  FCC just reassigned it to me as a previous holder.  However, in the early 90’s, when I decided I wanted my original call again, and I was again in the 7th call district, I had to do so under the vanity program, and pay extra for it too!  Even renewals were subject to a special fee!  Now that has changed, thankfully.  However, I still somewhat resent the fact that my call is considered a vanity call, even though I am a previous holder of it, and also that, at one time, I would have been reissued this call by “rights”.  
>> 
>> While I’m grousing about “vanity” issues, our Arizona Department of Transportation allows me to have a “vanity” license plate with my call on it.  I pay an extra $25 for that, presumably to cover the cost of special processing.  However, I have to pay that same $25 every time I renew!  Why???  It doesn’t cost them anything extra once the plate has been made and issued!!!  Seems a bit unfair to me!
>> 
>> Dave W7AQK
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