[Elecraft] Vanity Calls

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft]

Thread closed.

Folks, way OT topics like this should be self limited to a typical 2-5 posts at 
most. This is well outside of our normal Elecraft related topics.

73,
Eric
/Moderator, really!
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On 7/18/2018 12:37 PM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> 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
>>
>
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