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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