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.

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aged ham

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I was once WN9JOT. This was back in 1972 when I was qualified to use code only and you had to get up to something like 20 wpm before you were allowed to talk (and thus graduate from "N" status). I never got over the hump, but I never had any equipment anyway, and soon lost interest.