[LakelandARC] FL Amateur Callsign License Plate application code

Sat Jan 7 08:45:27 PST 2017

I applied for my plates last year after we moved here from NJ and avoided any trip to the local office.  (Not that I don't like to visit with all those nice smiling DMV agents)  I downloaded the online application form, filled it out, mailed it with a check to Tallahassee and, in what seemed to be a rather quick turnaround time, I got my new Amateur license plates in the mail. It was an easy process. 

http://www.hsmv.state.fl.us/dmv/forms/BTR/83041.pdf
FYI - Now, for those of you who would like really a good DMV story while enjoying a cold pint in the local pub with me, registering my two antique military vehicles under a rather obscure Florida "no-expiration one-time-fee" registration provision, THAT was a HUGE nightmare. Multiple trips to DMV, big $$$ fees, clueless DMV agents, multiple phone calls to Tallahassee, letter writing, first visit TWO hours and then a second visit FOUR hours in the Lakeland DMV office....   Once I finally got everything resolved, the local Lakeland DMV office, very apologetically,  provided me with a written letter of apology and documentation of THEIR error which resulted in Tallahassee issuing me a hefty refund in FULL! Amazing. Quite the story.  Amateur radio plates are certainly much easier.  

Such attention to detail, we ham radio types are a royal pain, aren't we???  (Matt, "almost an hour"? ... you got off easy. LOL)

Good luck. Have fun. Chase DX ...
N2TE...-.-

(Someone should post that PDF file link on the blog and website pages and also add it to the LARC "I'm a new-to-the-area-ham" helpful-resources manual that's being written.)

      From: "Matthew Stevens matthew at mrstevens.net [LakelandARC]" <LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com>
 To: "LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com" <LakelandARC at yahoogroups.com> 
 Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2017 11:17 AM
 Subject: [LakelandARC] FL Amateur Callsign License Plate application code

    After spending over an hour at the tag agency yesterday before successfully applying for an Amateur license plate, I thought it might be worth sharing that the State of Florida Specialty Plate code for amateur plates is "RGA." It took 4 clerks almost 45 minutes, and a phone call to the state level to figure out which code they needed to enter into their computer system for the application. So, if you run into the same issue... save yourself some time and remember "RGA"

:-)

- Matthew KK4FEM
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