NC Amateur License Plate owners:

[rescue161]

Yeah, the SC plates are pretty cheap. I think it was $2.00 for the amateur plate.

Can't remember what the NC ham plates cost.

I like plain. I don't like a lot of graphics and extra crap all over my plate, just the call letters. Heck, I wouldn't mind if "Amateur Radio" wasn't on it. The TN amateur plates have the word "EMERGENCY" on theirs.

 

[KX4KDH]

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$10 extra for the NC amateur plate.

 

[KC0KM]

In Missouri it is an extra $15.00 for Amateur Plates. We too have the "flat" plate, as all vanity plates are now. I will not even consider getting one until I get my Extra, a new car (or truck and have a radio in it), and perhaps even a vanity call.

 

[kb9hgi]

here in Illinois we do have a pretty good plate but it cost us! Ours have lincoln on them andon the left side says HAM RADIO with your callsign and they are the good plates but like i said we pay 99.00 a year here. I have 2 vehicles that almost 200.00 a year in tags no mater what you have ham radio or plain tags.

I also noticed when i was in TN the call plates don't say Ham radio or Amateur Radio
its Says Emergency Vehicle why would they put that on Ham Ops plate?

 

[KX4KDH]

here in Illinois we do have a pretty good plate but it cost us! Ours have lincoln on them andon the left side says HAM RADIO with your callsign and they are the good plates but like i said we pay 99.00 a year here. I have 2 vehicles that almost 200.00 a year in tags no mater what you have ham radio or plain tags.

I also noticed when i was in TN the call plates don't say Ham radio or Amateur Radio
its Says Emergency Vehicle why would they put that on Ham Ops plate?

I'm sure I could do a Google image search, but can you post a pic of the IL plate? And yeah, I am familiar with how much IL charges for plates..... Unbelievable!

 

[KX4KDH]

Well, I bit the bullet, and ordered mine now that I have my vanity call.... The check cleared this past Monday... Now to see how long it takes to get it made, and sent here.....

I will probably have forgotten about it, and one day it will show up in the mail....

 

[KX4KDH]

It's here.... And what a piece of crap....

Well, after almost six weeks of waiting, it is finally here.... And just as disappointing as I expected it to be:

 

[rescue161]

Man, that did take FOREVER!

It's not that disappointing... I've seen worse...lol

 

[emd001]

Yeah that looks just like ours in Texas. Except exchange "Amateur Radio" for "Radio Operator". I like it, nice and simple.

 

[rescue161]

I just wish they were embossed like they used to be. I can't stand the flat-plates.

 

[AK9R]

And just as disappointing as I expected it to be:

At least NC plates make some reference to radio. IN plates just have our callsign with nothing about amateur radio.

 

[W2NJS]

Be glad you don't live in DC as I do. No ham plates, just vanity tags for $25.00 per year extra, with a total two-year cost for a passenger car of, if I recall correctly, $224.00. However, I've had the new flat plates now for four full years and they're fine and show no signs of fading or wear. I saw somewhere that what's being used is some kind of 3M lettering process which is why it lasts. One good thing we do have here is exemption from vehicle inspection for four years on new cars, and after that it's now only for emissions, not the petty "lights and horn" inspection crap we were once subjected to.

 

[AK9R]

Indiana is using a new lettering process, too. Regular passenger car and truck plates are re-used for 3 or 4 years. But, they issue new ham plates every year.

 

[KX4KDH]

Indiana is using a new lettering process, too. Regular passenger car and truck plates are re-used for 3 or 4 years. But, they issue new ham plates every year.

A new plate every year? That's odd.....

 

[IowaGuy1603]

Be glad you don't live in DC as I do. No ham plates, just vanity tags for $25.00 per year extra, with a total two-year cost for a passenger car of, if I recall correctly, $224.00. However, I've had the new flat plates now for four full years and they're fine and show no signs of fading or wear. I saw somewhere that what's being used is some kind of 3M lettering process which is why it lasts. One good thing we do have here is exemption from vehicle inspection for four years on new cars, and after that it's now only for emissions, not the petty "lights and horn" inspection crap we were once subjected to.

Actually they use a big laser printer.

I worked in the penitentiary in Iowa that makes plates. When we went from the big punchpress that embossed the plates to the flat plates we had to re do the entire line. Not only is the process simpler and cheaper, but much less labor intensive

They last for ever.

Iowa plates also just have the call----------no mention of ham or amateur radio. BUT they only cost us an extra $5.

 

[W0RS]

Here in Nebraska the state went with the flat plate but finally put a tower emblem and the words Amateur Radio on the plate. Previous years it only had call letters. To keep the front plate from getting marred up and bent I went to wall mart and bought a clear hard plastic plate holder, seems to work well!

 

[KX4KDH]

Here in Nebraska the state went with the flat plate but finally put a tower emblem and the words Amateur Radio on the plate. Previous years it only had call letters. To keep the front plate from getting marred up and bent I went to wall mart and bought a clear hard plastic plate holder, seems to work well!

Well..... Let's see a picture of it! But one of the rear plate.....

 

[newsphotog]

Well..... Let's see a picture of it!

I second this motion... haven't seen the new plate yet!

 

[kb0nly]

I want to see that new plate also, caught a quick glance at one with some storm chasers that buzzed through here during a storm.

In MN we went flat plates also, i still have my old original embossed Amateur Radio plates, yes it actually says it on them in MN. I have had these plates on four different vehicles now, just keep moving them over as i get a different vehicle, lifetime plates, never have to replace them. Just have to buy new tabs every year, or registration as some state call it, we just call it paying taxes for new tabs... LOL

 

[jayt555]

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