Similar tale here in southern CA. A ham friend has had call sign plates since they first came out here, so he haqs the old orangr letters on black background plates that are probably 30 years old. He's been stopped many times when a cop got suspicious about such old plates on a car only a couple of years old, so my friend got a new set of plates.
----- Original Message ----- From: sanleontexas To: [email protected] Sent: 27 September, 2007 09:56 Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Call letter plates Don't pity the 'poor cops' too much. A week or two ago my friend Paul, W0AIH, who has been a Wisconsin resident for many years and has call letter plates with his callsign on all of his vehicles, was driving to another town in Wisconsin and was stopped by a local cop who 'just didn't think that license number looked right'. Apparently he had never heard of ham radio and wasn't aware of call letter plates.
