[Elecraft] Vanity Calls

[Fred Jensen]

Indeed, went through exactly the same process in CA a number of years 
ago.  Ham tags in CA are not vanity tags, they've been around pretty 
much as long as I've been a ham, back when all tags came in one flavor 
... black with yellow letters. When vanity tags came along, they got 
their own field in the file for the type code, and you couldn't be a ham 
and a vanity at the same time.  At that time, DMV's system was coded in 
COBOL and ran on a TRS80, I think.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 7/18/2018 11:51 AM, Phil Kane wrote:
> About 25 years ago I tried to assist a California ham in his effort to
> get his call sign on a "special series" plate (as contrasted to a "plain
> vanilla" plate) after DMV rejected it.  I happened to have a personal
> link to the state senator who was the chair of the committee overseeing
> the DMV.   His staff assistant looked into it and related that the DMV
> computer was so old that it could not be reprogrammed in the field to
> permit this, and that the funding for the new computer was circulating
> somewhere in Legislative Limbo.  I love(d) California but there are
> limits... :)
>
> 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
> ARRL Volunteer Counsel
>