Ham Plates in New York State

[Jimbo695]

Registration renewal time so I thought I'd get ham plates. Found out that NYS has a sharp new format with "Amateur Radio" and a logo BUT no longer will do up ham plates with individual call signs. Smart move, I think. With your call sign on your plate any road rage maniac with a smart phone quickly can ID your name and address with only a Google search ! Anyway, $35 plus your normal bi-annual renewal fees, and $6.25 additional for each renewal period you keep the plates.

 

[jeepsandradios]

Interesting. My wife has the older "ham" plates with the tower and call. I would like a set without the call if thats the case...guess its time to search

 

[KB7MIB]

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Use a P.O. Box as a mailing address. Wish I could still afford to do so, myself. My Dad is a retired letter carrier, so we had one at the office he worked out of. And it was one city over from our city of residence, even.

 

[DaveNF2G]

Again, I don't know where you get your information. Ham plates may still be obtained with your callsign.

There are some DMV offices that make it more difficult to do business with DMV than others. I was told that I could not get ham plates for my van. Since then, I have learned that the particular office in question (Troy) has a reputation for telling people they can't do perfectly acceptable things just because certain staff don't want to be bothered. I'll be checking Saratoga County and maybe the Albany office to see if I get a different answer.

 

[DaveNF2G]

BTW, the PO Box dodge only works to cover your address against someone checking your registration data. Your station location must still be specified on your ham license. Anyone can search the FCC ULS for all of your license information.

 

[Jimbo695]

I went on the DMV website and was surprised to see that the revised form for emergency services custom plates, form MV411, says that only water rescue team plates may be personalized, and those are the only ones for which a field is provided for personalization. Just passing on what I see.

 

[CommJunkie]

{clip} Your station location must still be specified on your ham license. Anyone can search the FCC ULS for all of your license information.

No, it doesn't. The FCC only requires a MAILING address that the FCC can use to contact you.

That was even a question on the Technician exam.

 

[rapidcharger]

What if every driver could be looked up easily on an app? Maybe if every driver could be looked up online there wouldn't be any road rage.

I'm just thinking out loud here.

 

[KB7MIB]

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Thanks, CommJunkie.
rapidcharger, you'd probably have a lot of people using P.O. Boxes (maybe that'd get the Postal Service back in the black, financially lol) and/or fake addresses to get around that.

 

[KB7MIB]

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You'd also have a whole lot of people complaining about privacy issues, and personal security issues and all that if the bad guys could just look up your address that easily. (Not to mention LEO's/judges/prosecutors & their families, etc.)

 

[CommJunkie]

Here's the NY plate...I'm surprised it's not gold.

 

[CommJunkie]

Michigan's is ok too:

 

[rapidcharger]

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You'd also have a whole lot of people complaining about privacy issues, and personal security issues and all that if the bad guys could just look up your address that easily. (Not to mention LEO's/judges/prosecutors & their families, etc.)

Of course because nobody likes to be held accountable for their driving skills or lack thereof.
But as it is, vehicle registration is already public record. Anyone can go to their DMV and fill out the form and pay the fee and get that info. I believe it's blocked on judges and cops.
And if that's too inconvenient they can log on to any number of the websites that have already bought up all that data.

As for the PO boxes, they don't let you register your car with a po box and I know that some places acutally know of all the private mailbox places like UPS store and if you try to use that address to register your car they'll say "nice try".

 

[ecps92]

Illegal.

The Federal Driver Privacy Protection Act prohibits that

Driver's Privacy Protection Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But as it is, vehicle registration is already public record. Anyone can go to their DMV and fill out the form and pay the fee and get that info. I believe it's blocked on judges and cops.

And if that's too inconvenient they can log on to any number of the websites that have already bought up all that data.
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[AK9R]

Guys, back to New York amateur radio license plates, please.

 

[Jimbo695]

Ham Plates in New York State - More

On May 1 I started a thread about how NYS no longer might be issuing plates with call signs on them. My reason ? When I applied there was no place to list my selection of what I wanted on the plate and only one specific service (divers, I think) could still do so. I speculated about how maybe that was a security change, since any road rage maniac with a smart phone could google a sign and get a name and home address in two seconds. Someone wrote that I was mistaken and nothing had changed. I said that I only was reporting what I saw on the NY DMV website. Someone else posted a mockup from the DMV website and indeed the configuration of letters and numbers looked nothing like a call sign. Pretty convincing, no ? Well, CROW EATING TIME. In come the plates and yes- for anyone with a grasp of the obvious - they have my call sign ! SO why did I waste everyone's time with this ? BAAAAAAH, do I feel sheepish.

 

[n9mxq]

Honest mistake. You shared information you believed true at the time.. And have posted a proper retraction.. Can't see anyone faulting you there.. Most people wouldn't take the time..

 

[8K10F1E]

On May 1 I started a thread about how NYS no longer might be issuing plates with call signs on them. My reason ? When I applied there was no place to list my selection of what I wanted on the plate and only one specific service (divers, I think) could still do so. I speculated about how maybe that was a security change, since any road rage maniac with a smart phone could google a sign and get a name and home address in two seconds. Someone wrote that I was mistaken and nothing had changed. I said that I only was reporting what I saw on the NY DMV website. Someone else posted a mockup from the DMV website and indeed the configuration of letters and numbers looked nothing like a call sign. Pretty convincing, no ? Well, CROW EATING TIME. In come the plates and yes- for anyone with a grasp of the obvious - they have my call sign ! SO why did I waste everyone's time with this ? BAAAAAAH, do I feel sheepish.

I went on the DMV website and was surprised to see that the revised form for emergency services custom plates, form MV411, says that only water rescue team plates may be personalized, and those are the only ones for which a field is provided for personalization. Just passing on what I see.

They meant the water rescue plates can have custom wording. For example a water rescue plate that says "lolcustom" on it.

Everything else gets randomly generated numbers. Except for Ham radio plates which will be your callsign.

Here's the NY plate...I'm surprised it's not gold.

Of course it's not. It's designed to look like the old NYS plates...

Why?

It gives people more of a reason to buy over priced custom plates and avoid getting the ugly gold ones.


It's all a clever money making scheme that the state came up with.