it's simply amazing how muchthis has Nothing to do about building or
servicing Repeaters.
--- In [email protected], "Dick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
