[InHam] Fw: Re: Ham Radio License Plates

[n9ljx at comcast.net]

If you had a currently available plate (In God we Trust/Environmental/etc) then you are charged $10 to switch to a different plate. They getcha coming and going.... 

What I don't like is that while there is plenty of room on the plate for the state seal, they treat it like a personalized plate and remove any extra adornments. That makes the amateur plate look boring and tacky, not that the regular state seal plate is any too fancy. I have seen University plates with call signs but the local branch seemed clueless on how to do that. 

73, 
--scott N9LJX 

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n9ljx at comcast.net 

----- "JACK C. SHUTT" <w9gt at verizon.net> wrote: 
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> --- On Sat, 2/21/09, JACK C. SHUTT <w9gt at verizon.net> wrote: 
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From: JACK C. SHUTT <w9gt at verizon.net> 
> Subject: Re: [InHam] Ham Radio License Plates 
> To: "Steven Read" <ab9ol at yahoo.com> 
> Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8:14 AM 
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I'm not sure what that additional $10.00 was for, but you pay $8.00 every year for the amateur radio plate (on top of your normal fees). What I ran into last year, however, was that I had always reserved my plate for the following year when I picked up the current plate, then I picked up that plate the following year....all at my local license branch. This last time, however, I was told that I would have to wait for my plate to be sent to me from Winchester, IN. In the mean time, I was given a temporary paper plate. Well,.......I waited and waited for a month, and the amateur plate never came in the mail. Checked with the license bureau and they said it had been lost. So they sent in for a new one and I finally received it about six weeks after I had originally tried to pick it up at the branch. I then received a form to order the plate for the following year. For some reason....they are not handling the amateur plates at the branches anymore. I don't know why they messed with the process, which had always worked very smoothly, but I guess they are trying to encourage doing the transaction on the internet and shipping the plate to you via US Mail. 

73, Jack, W9GT Fort Wayne, IN 
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> --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Steven Read <ab9ol at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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From: Steven Read <ab9ol at yahoo.com> 
> Subject: [InHam] Ham Radio License Plates 
> To: inham at mailman.qth.net 
> Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 5:33 PM 
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> I have had my call for just under two years and have my first plate with 
my call on it coming. I was charged eight dollars several months ago 
when I reserved my plate an additional ten dollars when I paid this 
year's fees - a total of eighteen dollars. My question is what will it 
cost me each year from now on to renew?

Steven Read - ab9ol
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