Hi Beth!
What you allow to be public is, and there's little you can really do about
it. However, there are steps you can take to at least try to minimise the
hastles caused.
Any record you will have with the FCC will be tied to an FRN, and you will
need to authroise any change that you may need to make along the way, such
as when/if you get married.
Good luck either way, and hope you enjoy the hobby that has treated me well
for over 35 years.
73,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Beth
Sent: Friday, 11 September 2015 1:46 p.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: what identifying information is tied to a callsign?
Okay, guys. I don't normally post on here. But I've got some serious
decision making to do before I get my ham license. My boyfriend, who is
already a ham, has a pretty common name. Okay, I was talking to him and
another ham friend of mine, but I got worried about several things:
1. If you Google for instance my boyfriend's callsign, you will find his
profile right there on QRZ, Ham Shack, Arizona's ham radio database, and
lots of other places. So that worries me because my name is a one and only,
pretty unique.
2. If you Google the same callsign plus your name, imagine what pops up
after that. When I Googled my name alone, I managed to bring up some pretty
weird stuff even I admit I wrote, plus my Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter,
Instagram, etc. I even found my Foursquare profile, and eerily, I found a
411 website that contained my dad's phone number and address, and if you
Google the correct name, not Elizabeth, but Beth, you will definitely pop up
my dad's address and phone number. I don't want this, so I'm trying to
decide. If I google a callsign and name put together, you narrow your
search, but it appears, however, that my boyfriend's name is too common, and
I joked with him that he had a clone in Vancouver Washington State. lol So
this is my dilemma: if I get a ham radio license now, unmarried, with the
maiden name as is, my dad could easily pop up in Google search results, and
someone, maybe another strange weird person, could contact my dad and ask
why I even bothered. He has some mental competency issues with me he has not
resolved, so that's a given. I hate my maiden name anyway. But I am leaning
toward waiting for a license when my marriage certificate with my boyfriend
is confirmed. When we sign and dot the I's and cross the T's on our I Do
slip, so to speak, then I think I'd be better off with a ham license, smooth
sailing. The reason why I am writing this list is to get advice and to see
if I'm doing this all in the name of informed decision making. I know some
of you who are male won't concur, but in this digital age, you can Google
somebody's callsign and Lord knows what is connected with that. As for my
boyfriend's clone in Vancouver, I'm not concerned, but I find it weird.
I wish the boyfriend's callsign would show me his Facebook page though,
after all I think that's where we're headed.
Thank you all for your advice in advance.
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Beth Taurasi, Windows 10 edition,
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