Jim, here in Texas your ham plates are yours and when you sell a vehicle you are supposed to go and get regular tags before selling or trading in the car. I have seen a number of cars on used car lots with ham plates. Seems that the owner of the plate and the lot owner does not know the law. Also you must have radio equipment in the vehicle before they will issue the plates. Unfortunatly all you have to do is check the box. DMV does not know if you have the equipment or not. A few of us at the SO are hams so we do look for making sure the owner of the vehicle with ham plates is really a ham radio operator.
David ===================== From: Jim Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2007/09/27 Thu AM 05:46:05 CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Call Sign and Sounds like a Ham ÃÂà, ÃÂàNOT I had my car stolen in Las Vegas several years ago, and if I had not brought my license receipt with me to show the secretary who took my report, I would not have convinced her that I had given her the right plate number. ( Stolen cars are so common in Las Vegas, NV that they will not even send an officer out to take a report )  When she ran the plate, she found three motorhomes and two other vehicles with the same plate in Texas. Turns out that when you trade a motorhome in Arizona, they do not cancel the title in Texas when you trade. Two of the motorhome registrations had expired though, and we finally got it straightened out. We travel with the same plate on the motorhome and tow car.  My son's father in law has plate AF1R as a vanity plate. (Air Force #1 Retired)  73 - Jim W5ZIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Texas you can have up to 10 vehicles with the same ham call sign as long as you are the owner of the vehicles. What a mess when you see two cars with the same ham radio plate. David Deputy Collin CO SO WA4ECM ===================== From: Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2007/09/26 Wed PM 01:28:42 CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Call Sign and Sounds like a Ham , NOT On Sep 26, 2007, at 9:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Likewise in Oregon. We were at a ham lunch several times and saw a > plate with the letters N4CER. It was some Security company guy, who > wanted it to be a cute version of "Enforcer" - we visited with him > and he wasn't aware of what ham radio was and really seemed to care > less. I guess if N4CER had moved to Oregon and wanted a Call Letter > plate, he would have been out of luck since it was already taken. > > LJ In Colorado, you can have both a "WY0X" vanity plate, and a "WY0X" callsign plate. The price is different, and the "real" callsign plate will have "SCL" printed vertically down the left side of the plate in very small letters. (Special Callsign License) Someone without a ham ticket could get the vanity plate, but not the SCL plate. You have to provide a copy of your license to get the SCL plate. SCL plates are also issued for commercial broadcast stations wishing to have their callsign on remote trucks/whatever. For broadcasters with multiple of these "semi-vanity" plates, a "-#" is usually added to the plates... "KBCO-1", "KBCO-2"... etc. (Disclaimer: I don't <BR>know if KBCO uses the SCL plates or not, just using them as an <BR>example of what I've seen on some remote trucks.) -- Nate Duehr, WY0X [EMAIL PROTECTED] Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today!
