As mentioned, you need to download a copy of your license. You are
supposed to have that license with you when operating portable and have
it posted at a base station.
Anyhow, you do not take it to DPS. DPS only processes driver's licenses.
You will take the form to your county tax collector's office. They will
process it, have the plates made and then you call them in about a month
and ask if your plates are in. Ask where they are. They could be at the
downtown office and you can ask for them to be sent to any outlying tax
collectors office.
Once a year, you will get a notice to renew the specialized plate. This
is not the paying the registration fee and getting the window sticker.
This is only that you are keeping the specialized plate alive. It used
to cost $2, for the last 3-4-5 years, it has been free. But you do have
to send the notice back. Strange, They send it, you tear off the reply
part, send it back and no money is involved. Best thing the state ever
did for us.
I had a car totaled, took plates off old car, put them on the new car at
the dealer and left them with the form and copy of my license. In a few
weeks the registration came and put the sticker on the windshield.
Be sure to get replacement plates if you ever sell the car. Otherwise
the other person will be driving around with your ham plates and you
cannot do anything about it. When you get the replacement plates (like
$5), you will be given your plates to keep. Also, if you buy a used car,
you can go in with your ham plates, register the car and you walk out
with the registration and sticker for the ham plates right then. Did
that on a car we bought used.
73...bruce
On 11/15/2019 2:12 AM, Mark Brantana via BVARC wrote:
Hi. I am new to this club. Wonder if someone could help me with a question. I
am looking to apply for ham plates, and have filled in the Texas form. However
they ask for a copy of my “FCC Mobile Amateur Radio License”. I just upgraded
to General, but my understanding is that the FCC no longer issues a paper
license unless you request it, and I have not heard of the license they
mention. What has anyone used to satisfy this requirement?
Thank you in advance,
Mark
N5PRD
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