[Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia

[Carl J. Denbow]

A Roman Catholic priest in my hometown years ago, when John Kennedy was 
running for president, had license plates that read: 4 JK.  This priest 
name was Jan Kish, so it was just his initials, However, in the heated 
political climate of the day, many who should have known better 
interpreted it as a political statement and evidence of Catholic 
solidarity.  Kennedy's religion, of course, was a campaign issue.  73 
Carl N8VZ

EricJ wrote on 7/16/18 5:37 PM:
> 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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