Who cares? In the following scenario, I would care! If I had the call sign N1OCL and I moved from Connecticut (or where ever) to Montana and then tried to get a ham plate for my vehicle, I would care. I believe my application would be turned down by the Montana DOL, because the Montana license plate number N1OCL already belongs to someone else, a non-ham. We know the problem exists for this call. I've heard it also exists for others as well. We suspect N1OCL is someone's airplane registration number and the guy got it as a personalized plate number. It perhaps is legal in Montana, but I still would be ticked off and yes, I would care. Like I said in my first response to this thread. This could NOT happen Washington state--see earlier post.
73, Larry W7IN On 6/29/2011 10:26 AM, George and Cheryl Abbott wrote: > The discussion thread appeared concern opposition to "personalized > "license tags resembling ham plates ,or legitimate ham plates being > used on multiple vehicles.Who cares!. > > Thanks for your efforts to preserve our bandwidths! I really need to > get back on the air.I'm still grieving the loss of AO13 and AO40. > > Regards, George W1GMA > > -----Original Message----- From: Larry Gerhardstein > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:02 PM > To: George and Cheryl Abbott > Cc: H. Vordenbaum ; Clint Bradford ; AMSAT BB > Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning! > > George and Cheryl, > > So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. > I've never complained about hams getting more privileges, voice, WARC > bands, digital modes, LF, etc. Leaves more energy to be concerned about > hams possibly loosing privileges. > > 73, Larry W7IN (57 years a ham op.) > > On 6/29/2011 7:04 AM, George and Cheryl Abbott wrote: >> Why do you think that this is such a big deal?Sounds similar to the >> old timers complaining about the granting of voice privileges for >> novices back in the 80's.Get a life! >> >> -----Original Message----- From: H. Vordenbaum >> >> Harvey, K5HV >> Kerrville, TX >> >>> >>> Larry W7IN, Plains MT >> > > _______________________________________________ Sent via [email protected]. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
