Years ago I was working with a catering dept at a hotel to set up a conference. I met the new manager named Kate, and it was decided to continue the meeting over lunch. We walked to where her car was parked and I noticed her Ohio license plate: K8WYT. I asked, "Oh, are you an amateur radio operator?" She said, "No. That's me. Kate White."
73 jeff wk6i On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Jim - N4ST <[email protected]> wrote: > Years ago, during the 70's gas rationing in Maryland, I found I could get > gas on either odd or even days with my AA3O license plate. > ____________ > 73, > Jim - N4ST > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Rose > Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:56 > To: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> > Subject: [Elecraft] OT: Call letter license plate trivia > > Montana has a $25 vanity plate fee, regardless of what the plate "says", > -but- ham radio plates are exempt. > > BUT … I had a very difficult time convincing the local county folks that > my "K0PP" plates were -not- the usual vanity plate they were used to > issuing. It took a 200 mile trip to the state motor vehicle office with a > copy of the Callbook and the FCC Part 97 in hand to get the matter resolved. > > At the time the prison tag shop foreman was a ham. They had no slant zero > die and he made my first plate by hand with a strip of tape across a zero. > He told me I was the first "zero" plate they had made … the die they > subsequently purchased cost $97. > > Montana renews a plate with an adhesive expiration date sticker and does > not issue a new plate each year. > > 73! > > Ken Kopp - K0PP > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Jeff Stai ~ [email protected] Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/ Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/twistedoak RTTY op at W7RN ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
