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From: jhs%Mitre-Bedford@d3unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Automobile Ham call sign plates
Message-ID: <8484@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 15:26:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 15:26:51 1985
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Oboy, another HOT CONTROVERSY !!!

Ham plates are NOT just vanity plates !!   What if some constable finds that
his radio just went out and he needs a HAM to patch him through to his home
precinct?  What  T H E N ? ? ?  If the next passing ham doesn't have his
callsign plates on because he is too destitute to pay "vanity" rates for them,
the public interest will be poorly served indeed!

Or what if some little old lady gets run down by a car and wants to flag down
the next passing ham to call for help for her?  Wouldn't HER interests be
better served by allowing Joe Ham to have callsign plates at discount rates?

C'mon, guys (and gals!) -- let's get another barrage of flame-type messages
(known in the good old daze as diatribes) going!

						-de W3IKG