Hmm... any chance the RAC can look into it?  I thought all possible combinations of amateur radio call signs would be on a restricted list.

Dave Cotie wrote on 07/22/10 at 12:42:23:

Hmm.  When I got my ham plate, they asked to see my amateur radio licence.  IIRC, they even took a photocopy.

Callsigns do get re-assigned occasionally, so what may have happened is that the person who had it before gave up the callsign with Industry Canada, but never bothered to turn in his old plates to the MTO.  The licence plate number won't get re-issued until that happens, even if the plates are hanging on a garage wall somewhere, rusted away to nothing, or were crushed with the last car they were on.

Edit: hang on - I re-read what you wrote.

The deal, IIRC, is this: if you want a ham radio plate, you have to be a ham.  If you want any random six-character combination on your plate, you can have it (subject to the regular rules about profanity, etc.) as long as you pay the fee.

So... AFAIK, the whole process for hams is about justifying the cheap personalized plate, not about protecting callsigns.

When you get this sorted, offer to give the other guy new vanity plates:
DCHEBAG  ; )

BTW Dave M I sent you a PM - I think you PM'd me on Turbobricks about my door cards.