AC2OY
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If I ever get extra or a two by three I would love to get plates!!
Amateur License Plates
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milkman21218
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jparks29
John McClane
Like the whackerific TN plate...
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I agree. My former (2003) Florida amateur callsign plates have "Sunshine State" on the bottom. I don't recall having any choice of a different phrase at the time.
John
AC4JK
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
Mine are based off the Texas exempt plate, radio operator replaces exempt. I'm one of the few 21 year olds with a 2x3 though.
Every state is different about issuing them. Texas you can have as many vehicles that are under your name with a callsign plate. You should see how many cops (even in Texas) double check when your pickup, camper, and jeep that you're flat towing all have the same license plate number.
Every state is different about issuing them. Texas you can have as many vehicles that are under your name with a callsign plate. You should see how many cops (even in Texas) double check when your pickup, camper, and jeep that you're flat towing all have the same license plate number.
N4KVE
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So what happens when the cops run the ham tag on the Jeep. It comes back to the Jeep, & the pickup, & the camper?
My thoughts exactly. Why give the criminals any free advantage? How much is the rent on a small PO Box? What are the odds that you could set up permanent mail forwarding from the PO Box to your actual address?
N4KVE
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You know I was going to do this, but then my friend ran my name on his computer, & it took 10 seconds to find several sites including a local county gov't site where my full address was listed. Also my last 6 addresses where i used to live.The local county voter's registration site lists everyone's address in the county if they are registered to vote.
Darth_vader
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<hijack> "How much is the rent on a small PO Box?"
https://poboxes.usps.com/poboxonline/search/landingPage.do
Feed it your Z.I.P. code (you don't have to give it your address), hit "search", select your closest office from the page that follows and it'll give you a fee table. </hijack>
"I really enjoyed mine until the guy in the parking lot started shouting 'BREAKER ONE-NINE GOOD BUDDY'!"
Even as a CBer, I'd consider being called "good buddy" in that context highly offensive nowadays!
https://poboxes.usps.com/poboxonline/search/landingPage.do
Feed it your Z.I.P. code (you don't have to give it your address), hit "search", select your closest office from the page that follows and it'll give you a fee table. </hijack>
"I really enjoyed mine until the guy in the parking lot started shouting 'BREAKER ONE-NINE GOOD BUDDY'!"
Even as a CBer, I'd consider being called "good buddy" in that context highly offensive nowadays!
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I'm a bit lax online, but it's something about the off chance that somebody that saw me on I-85/95/40 could search my call sign and see how far I am from home and headed in the wrong direction creeps me out just a bit.I don't feel comfortable posting my call sign on a message board, never mind driving around with it on the back of my car.
Darth_vader
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I completely agree. Even my last time around as a HAM op, I refused to get my call letters on a licence plate or put them anywhere else on the Bronco, for that matter. I was also travelling a lot during that timeframe, so that only helped compound it.
A neighbour down the street not only has four different antennae atop his old beater F-250 and a bunch of expensive radio gear plainly visible from the windows, but has his (extra-class, yet) call letters on his plates AND in vinyl letters on the canopy-door window. That, and a shed off the back of the house full of thousand-plus shortwave gear and a gigantic, eyesore antenna tower sticking up above it like a billboard. Generally, this has been one of the safer parts of town for the most part over the decades, but I'd never know how he manages to sleep at night, considering the two break-ins that occurred last summer on his (and my) block, one being at the house directly behind his. But, to each his own, I guess.
Personally, the less one advertises it the better off they are in the long run. Especially if they regularly have to navigate the Fourth Plain Boulevard corridor, which in recent years, hasn't exactly enjoyed the reputation of being one of the more "pleasant" areas of Vancouver to be in, or parts of northern Portland.
A neighbour down the street not only has four different antennae atop his old beater F-250 and a bunch of expensive radio gear plainly visible from the windows, but has his (extra-class, yet) call letters on his plates AND in vinyl letters on the canopy-door window. That, and a shed off the back of the house full of thousand-plus shortwave gear and a gigantic, eyesore antenna tower sticking up above it like a billboard. Generally, this has been one of the safer parts of town for the most part over the decades, but I'd never know how he manages to sleep at night, considering the two break-ins that occurred last summer on his (and my) block, one being at the house directly behind his. But, to each his own, I guess.
Personally, the less one advertises it the better off they are in the long run. Especially if they regularly have to navigate the Fourth Plain Boulevard corridor, which in recent years, hasn't exactly enjoyed the reputation of being one of the more "pleasant" areas of Vancouver to be in, or parts of northern Portland.
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Yup. I'm thinking I could just be out at the mall etc. Someone could look it up and know I'm not home. Years ago I had an idiot look me up on eHam, and call my house because he disagreed with a review I wrote. That's why I haven't put my call sign on here.
WB4CS
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I understand people's paranoia about having their call being looked up, however it is part of a public database. ANYONE with a scanner can hear you on the local repeater while you're mobile to the store and know you're not home. They could look you up and go rob your house. Oh noes! What about fellow ham operators that are also bad people, they could rob you too! Oh noes! Should the paranoid people stop giving their ID on the air because of this? As mentioned above, if you own a home your address is available just by looking up the deed records. Oh noes!!! Paranoia is not healthy.
Question to ponder, has anyone ever had their house robbed and proven that it was because of their ham radio license plate?
Question to ponder, has anyone ever had their house robbed and proven that it was because of their ham radio license plate?
Well, I wasn't gonna admit going to the mall...RADIOSHACK!!!
And that is the rational side of the argument. I agree it's unlikely, if they want me they will get me(they won't get much). All told, I'll probably have my call on my Jeep before long, I just have to get used to the idea first.
Project25_MASTR
Millennial Graying OBT Guy
Like I said, Texas it's based off the exempt plate. Exempt is another a state agency can have multiple vehicles under one plate (though it's not a very common practice). It just brings up a list of vehicles under the plate. Don't know about our of state though. I'll have to put my jeep under my call and ask one of my Colorado sheriff buddies.
Callsigns are public domain, not a ton of people are aware of that though. The info under my callsign isn't very helpful at the moment. A) you'll bring up most of my grandfather's old stuff and info in a Google search, B) I have a permanent address but you might not always find me within 300 miles of there most of the time. C) ULS is currently a non necessity operation according to the federal government...and we all know the current state of that.
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WB4CS said exactly what I was thinking.
Anybody, anywhere......can get your information.
Don't be so paranoid......just get some dogs, protection, move to New York City!
Anybody, anywhere......can get your information.
Don't be so paranoid......just get some dogs, protection, move to New York City!
k3cfc
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When your a ham operator you can not hide. put a zip code in this web site and everybody with a license will be listed.
RadioQTH Amateur Radio Vanity License Search
RadioQTH Amateur Radio Vanity License Search
elk2370bruce
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Just because we're paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get us. There are, as shown above, lots of ways that someone can get information from legal sources. Any antenna on your car is an attention getter even if you don't have "special" plates. Total anonymity and privacy has long been eroded courtesy of the world wide web.
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