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From: ee5001ae@charon.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Licence plates
Keywords: misunderstanding, feeling stupid
Message-ID: <3969@charon.unm.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 88 21:19:40 GMT
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Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
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Back in August, in the parking lot of an Albuquerque K-mart, I saw the
following licence plate:

			71 # MHZ

  (# is the "Zia" sun symbol, found on New Mexico licence plates & flags.)

What in the world is allocated at 71 MHz? It's certainly not a ham band...per-
haps government or commercial allocation? Hmmm. Not having a catalog of freq.
allocations, I decided the easiest thing to do was ask the driver what it was.
That's the sort of licence a ham would have, if he wasn't satisfied with just
h(is/er) call.

So, I asked.

The fellow was puzzled. Plainly, he didn't know what I was talking about. That 
puzzled me.

After a couple of more exchanges, I got things straight: The car was built in
1971. MHZ were the fellow's initials.

Grrrrr....

					Keep :^)ing,
						d

PS: W9MKV, let me know if you see this. I'm assured that UNM is again able to
	post to the net.		-d


-- 
	Always pay careful attention to the man behind the curtain.
  Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5001ae@charon.unm.edu