Guest bunkerdave Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 I am thinking about getting a geocaching-related personalized license plate. I know there are some great ideas out there. Anyone care to share? I have a few ideas, but if you would not mind sharing, I might like yours better. The only rules are, I guess, that it can only have seven alphanumeric characters, with one punctuation. (period, apostrophe, hyphen, etc.) I appreciate the ideas. ------------------ David Wallentine dwallent34@yahoo.com Quote Link to comment
Guest Markwell Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 A few... G OCACHE G OCASHR LAT LONG GEEKSEEK (too many letters, but still fun) CACHER GPS NUT GPS HUNT GPS GEEK GPS SEEK GPS FIND Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 LOST 1 UR HERE NT LOST FIND ME LOCK ON WAYPNT Quote Link to comment
Guest Cisupete Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 My suggestion: N39 W88 (or whatever your general coordinates are). Quote Link to comment
Guest Elwood Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 TOPODOG TOPOMAP [This message has been edited by Elwood (edited 18 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Anton Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 GOTGPS? WGS-84 GARMIN! GPSRUS! GPSBOY! GEO-BOY GEO-MAN GEO-GRL FINDIT! ------------------ Anton Ninno - N2RUD Syracuse, NY 13210 Quote Link to comment
Guest Iron Chef Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 WareAmI ;~) (star)CACHER [This message has been edited by Iron Chef (edited 19 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest Cache-potato Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 WGS, NAD etc etc or maybe 'GOTO L' or then again........ Quote Link to comment
Guest The 19th Posted July 18, 2001 Share Posted July 18, 2001 Here are some specifically for bunkerddave: BNKRDAV GCBDAVE UTCACHR CACHNUT (Cache in UT or Cache Nut) and for some more generic ones: GOTWAAS HDDMMSS HDDMMMM GPSFIND GPSHUNT or how about this... ROT-13 any of the suggestions on this thread. hehe... Quote Link to comment
Guest martinp13 Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I hate you people with 7 characters to work with! ------------------ > Martin Magellan 330 (1.56/WAAS enabled!) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo ! Quote Link to comment
Guest martinp13 Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I hate you people with 7 characters to work with! ------------------ > Martin Magellan 330 (1.56/WAAS enabled!) Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo ! Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I love your ideas. I had already downloaded and printed off the form, and penciled in CACHE ME for my first choice, BNKRDVE for my second, and CACHE IT for the 3rd. Did I mention that periods and hyphen do not count as a space, but spaces do? That means that you can do two words with 7 letters total, and have a separation using a hyphen or period. Obviously, this is just Utah. Others states may be different. I am going to order one soon, so keep 'em coming! This is great. Just for fun, there is a website where you can see what your place will look like (Utah) and it will even check to see if the plate you want is available. Check out: http://www.utah.gov/serv/upps It even lets you choose which plate you want. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I use a Magellan Map 330 (with WAAS, of course) How about MAGELL-N or MAP 330 or GPS-1 UTCACH-R (Remember, Hyphens don't count against you. I have noticed a lot of good ways to use numbers as letters/words. ONe I came up with a while ago (unrelated to GPS): IH8RDNX (See if you can decipher this one) How about IH8GRMN (Just kidding - they make a great unit) or CACH-BGR (Cache-bagger) maybe NAVIG8-R Lots of fun. Quote Link to comment
Guest c.mathis Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I just ordered my "GPS HUNT" plate in California. Quote Link to comment
Guest Cach-U-Nuts Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I guess the Cach-U-Nuts are outta luck here in Utah, as far as becoming personally licensed. Ha! At least we were able to register the domain name. Can other states really use more than 7 charaters? It's only fitting that Bunker Dave be the 1st w/personal plates here in the #1 caching state! These ideas are great! Can't wait to see the ole subaru all personalized! Go BD Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 19, 2001 Share Posted July 19, 2001 I have ordered my plates. It is one of your ideas, bit I won't say which one until I actually have the plates. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment
Guest Snowtrail Posted July 20, 2001 Share Posted July 20, 2001 If you don't mind, I'm going to add this to the "You know you're addicted to geocaching when..." forum. Those are some good ones though Quote Link to comment
Guest Snowtrail Posted July 20, 2001 Share Posted July 20, 2001 If you don't mind, I'm going to add this to the "You know you're addicted to geocaching when..." forum. Those are some good ones though Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 23, 2001 Share Posted July 23, 2001 Since there is no way anyone can steal my plate now, I will tell you: I went with the "GPSHUNT" plate. (Hope you don't mind, Mr. Mathis.) I wanted to put a space in there, but I only get 7. I figured that Caching is still a new enough sport that alot of people would not know what it was unless I put "GPS" in there somewhere. It will go well with my "THIS VEHICLE STOPS AT ALL GEO-CACHES" bumper sticker. Made it myself. Quote Link to comment
Guest backbyter Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 For those of us in Virginia, the site for customized plates is: https://www.dmv.state.va.us/dmvnet/plate_purchase/select_plate.asp This will let you choose the type of plate, (180+ to choose from), see what the plate will look like with your letters, tell you of the availability, and let you reserve the plate. Quote Link to comment
Guest c.mathis Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by bunkerdave:Since there is no way anyone can steal my plate now, I will tell you: I went with the "GPSHUNT" plate. (Hope you don't mind, Mr. Mathis.) Mind? I love it! I'd like to see our cars parked next to each other with the same plate. Quote Link to comment
Guest c.mathis Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by bunkerdave:Since there is no way anyone can steal my plate now, I will tell you: I went with the "GPSHUNT" plate. (Hope you don't mind, Mr. Mathis.) Mind? I love it! I'd like to see our cars parked next to each other with the same plate. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by c.mathis: Mind? I love it! I'd like to see our cars parked next to each other with the same plate. I hope that someday soon there will be a National Geocachers Rendezvous where I can meet some of the original cachers who started this sport and got it going. Maybe even Jeremy would attend and be the guest of honor. Guest? Heck, he's gotta be the MC. I can't wait to get the plates - got yours yet? Hey, what if we staged a rendezvous in Sturgis on the same week as the Harley Owner's Group gathering? I bet we could teach them a thing or two about navigation. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 quote:Originally posted by c.mathis: Mind? I love it! I'd like to see our cars parked next to each other with the same plate. I hope that someday soon there will be a National Geocachers Rendezvous where I can meet some of the original cachers who started this sport and got it going. Maybe even Jeremy would attend and be the guest of honor. Guest? Heck, he's gotta be the MC. I can't wait to get the plates - got yours yet? Hey, what if we staged a rendezvous in Sturgis on the same week as the Harley Owner's Group gathering? I bet we could teach them a thing or two about navigation. Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 I just bought a Vespa. Do you think I'd get some strange looks at Sturgis? Heh I'll probably try and get vanity plates for it, but I think motorcycle/scooter plates have less letters (6 to be exact). Perhaps ICACHE would be appropriate. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest jeremy Posted July 28, 2001 Share Posted July 28, 2001 I just bought a Vespa. Do you think I'd get some strange looks at Sturgis? Heh I'll probably try and get vanity plates for it, but I think motorcycle/scooter plates have less letters (6 to be exact). Perhaps ICACHE would be appropriate. Jeremy Quote Link to comment
Guest Anton Posted July 29, 2001 Share Posted July 29, 2001 In this state at least, if you're licensed by the FCC as an amateur radio operator, you can get a license plate with your ham radio call sign on it. Since this is in the same category as firemen, EMTs and doctors, the charge is minimal compared to the the custom or "vanity" plates. So, my plates read: N2RUD. Althought I'd like to have Geocaching plates, I had to work way too hard for my ham license to give them up! Few other hobbies go better with geocaching than ham radio - a GPS receiver IS a radio. For example, I use the mobile radio in my truck when I need directions from the locals, not so much to get to a cache area, but for recommendations for places to eat, or maybe to get to a nearby store where I can buy batteries. If I were going geocaching with a group where some of the other players were hams, we could chat on the way. And since I've started geocaching, I have told the geocaching story to many other hams, with the hope of recruiting them into the game. Since hams already enjoy playing with radios, understand how the equipment works, and may already own a GPS, it isn't hard to get their interest! FYI, did you know that most of the people who originally created the Internet, and those who built the GPS satellite system are amateur radio operators. And most of the NASA astronauts are hams, too. Yup. In fact, with a ham license, YOU can chat with the folks on the Shuttle and International Space Station. Think about making your next gadget purchase a ham radio, preferably a 2-meter FM handheld or mobile radio. Pick up a study book at Radio Shack. Take the two basic licensing exams you need to pass (75%) to get your license - a total of only 55 multiple choice questions altogether. Then get to know the local hams on the 2-meter repeater stations (work like cell phones) in your town. You'll be glad you did. The next time your vehicle breaks down, or you get hungry in a strange town, call a ham for help. Their a friendly bunch, like me. Anton 11H/16F ------------------ Anton Ninno - N2RUD Syracuse, NY 13210 [This message has been edited by Anton (edited 29 July 2001).] Quote Link to comment
Guest c.mathis Posted July 29, 2001 Share Posted July 29, 2001 quote:Originally posted by bunkerdave: I can't wait to get the plates - got yours yet? I should have them in about two weeks. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 29, 2001 Share Posted July 29, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jeremy:I just bought a Vespa. Do you think I'd get some strange looks at Sturgis? Jeremy No stranger than the looks I always get as I walk in circles squinting at a blue/green box and a PDA as I mutter encrypted hints to myself. Quote Link to comment
Guest bunkerdave Posted July 29, 2001 Share Posted July 29, 2001 quote:Originally posted by jeremy:I just bought a Vespa. Do you think I'd get some strange looks at Sturgis? Jeremy No stranger than the looks I always get as I walk in circles squinting at a blue/green box and a PDA as I mutter encrypted hints to myself. Quote Link to comment
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