Who cares? In the following scenario, I would care! If I had the call sign N1OCL and I moved from Connecticut (or where ever) to Montana and then tried to get a ham plate for my vehicle, I would care. I believe my application would be turned down by the Montana DOL, because the Montana license plate number N1OCL already belongs to someone else, a non-ham. We know the problem exists for this call. I've heard it also exists for others as well. We suspect N1OCL is someone's airplane registration number and the guy got it as a personalized plate number. It perhaps is legal in Montana, but I still would be ticked off and yes, I would care. Like I said in my first response to this thread. This could NOT happen Washington state--see earlier post.

73, Larry W7IN

On 6/29/2011 10:26 AM, George and Cheryl Abbott wrote:

The discussion thread appeared concern opposition to "personalized "license tags resembling ham plates ,or legitimate ham plates being used on multiple vehicles.Who cares!.

Thanks for your efforts to preserve our bandwidths! I really need to get back on the air.I'm still grieving the loss of AO13 and AO40.

Regards, George W1GMA

-----Original Message----- From: Larry Gerhardstein Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 12:02 PM To: George and Cheryl Abbott Cc: H. Vordenbaum ; Clint Bradford ; AMSAT BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re: CA Ham Plates - Warning!

George and Cheryl,

So who is complaining? You? Harvey and I signed using our call signs. I've never complained about hams getting more privileges, voice, WARC bands, digital modes, LF, etc. Leaves more energy to be concerned about hams possibly loosing privileges.

73, Larry W7IN (57 years a ham op.)

On 6/29/2011 7:04 AM, George and Cheryl Abbott wrote:

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Why do you think that this is such a big deal?Sounds similar to the old timers complaining about the granting of voice privileges for novices back in the 80's.Get a life!

-----Original Message----- From: H. Vordenbaum

Harvey, K5HV Kerrville, TX

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Larry W7IN, Plains MT