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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Call-sign plates and theft?
Message-ID: <8961@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 15:49:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  5 15:49:08 1985
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> I am considering getting "call sign" license plates for my car, but I
> am concerned that doing so might more overtly advertise the fact that I
> am carrying expensive "goodies" in my vehicle -- thus making me a more
> likely target for theft.
> 
> Is this a valid concern?
> 
I've had HAM tags and a scuzzy KDK 2m in my car for a while.  I was
real careful about locking up the car (not that that does a whole lot
of good) because I feared that someone would steal it mistaking it for
a CB.  Well it just sits there in a slide out bracket.  All you do is
unplug the power and the antenna and away it goes.  Someone broke into
my car, took a whole bunch of quarters out of the ashtray and the buck
knife in my first-aid kit and left the radio.

I have had my walkie-talkie ripped off.  The guy who took it tried using
it as a CB.  I convinced him to sell it back to me because it wasn't a
CB.  I think he got sentenced to about a year.

-Ron