True. A callsign is like your ham name though, so thought I'd check it
out. What I want to eventually do is make it so that nobody links to my
maiden family, particularly Mom and Dad, that way they don't try to
sabotage my enjoyment of radio and other things. I've done much on the
Internet, but let's face it, I am not a drunken bar maid and I haven't
done anything sinful and posted that stuff on the Internet, but what if
say private court records were to show up? Refer to a previous email for
a bit more detail on that.
Beth Taurasi, Windows 10 edition,
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On 9/10/2015 8:12 PM, John Miller wrote:
> I'm not going to say it's never happened but I've never heard of anyone
> having a problem of that sort. There are some weird ones but fact is, you
> can find info on about anyone if you really want to so I wouldn't worry
> about it. If anyone really wants to find you, they're going to, a ham radio
> callsign isn't going to make you any more vulnerable than you already are. A
> perfect example, I met my wife through a popular online dating site,
> naturally, you never know who you're meeting on these sites and I did meet a
> real nut job around 10 years ago. After that, I started doing a ton of
> homework before meeting people and I'd never even tell them what I came up
> with on them because it would freak them out and they'd probably be weirded
> out by it but there isn't much you can't find out about anyone with a little
> research these days if you know how to do it. It took a lot of the surprise
> element out of it for me but kept me safe. One more thing to link you to
> isn't going to make much difference really if someone wants to find you out
> that bad. Sometimes I wish that wasn't true but there's not much you can do
> about it these days.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Beth
> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 9:45 PM
> 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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