CQ W9SIO DE N9IOG

[vakkotaur]

I've had my car long enough now the state of Minnesota is issuing new license plates for it. This should be no big deal, other than I have a state-issued piece of paper taped in the rear window showing that I did pay the registration renewal fee and that I am awaiting the new plates while still driving with the old ones. Today the new plates arrived, and tonight I figured I'd get changing the plates out of the way. Then I opened the envelope.

The envelope showed a plate with my callsign, N9IOG, as it should. The plate that was not showing should, of course, have also been N9IOG. It was not. Instead it was W9SIO. That's not my callsign. That callsign belongs to David Arnholt up in Moorhead, MN who was very surprised to get a call telling him I had one of his license plates. One of the plates he's been waiting for for some time from the sound of things. Tomorrow we'll each be making a trip to our local license bureau to try to get this straightened out.

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I didn't get callsign plates for some time. It was only after getting fed up with needing to remember license plate numbers for various things and forgetting that I decided to put an end to the problem with callsign plates. At least I waited I had N9IOG (haven't changed despite moving to 0-land) though I really didn't have KB9CKS very long.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've had KA9NZI since I was a novice, and now I have an OTC certificate and can join QCWA in just another year and a half. Another reason for not changing now is that I'd have to learn to stop sending the old call in morse, and get used to recognizing a new one. ;P