To get your license, the FCC needs to know how to contact you. So they will 
have your name and address, date of birth and a few other things. Their 
contact information is put in a public database, and QRZ.COM and other 
websites pick it up and can distribute that much to whoever asks. However, 
what goes in a QRZ.COM profile, articles you've written, e-mails you've 
written, etc., are put on the internet at your discretion. You either write 
these things on the internet or you don't. Usually people put more 
biographical stuff on QRZ, Facebook or Twitter because they want to become 
known. There are no guarantees that anything you write on the internet stays 
where you intended it to stay. But you have control of how much you write 
about yourself. I would go ahead and get the ham license now, if I were you. 
But I am an engineer and not a lawyer.
73,


Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message----- 
From: John Miller
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 11:06 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: what identifying information is tied to a callsign?

What difference does it make if you have a call sign or not on releasing the
info? Second, the archives of this and any email list can be searched by
anyone. If I look, I can find messages I posted on email lists that I
haven't been on and in one case I don't think it even exists anymore, going
back to the late 90's when I first got on the internet in the first place
with my old AOL account. Sorry, I'm not seeing what difference it makes what
name your call sign is under, and I have a feeling based on what little
people have heard from you and how much you've posted already, it wouldn't
take much to get that info out of you on this email list, which has
searchable archives. What's more, if this info you don't want public has any
police reports tied to it or court dates, if you're in the US, it's out
there. If anyone wants to try hard enough, they can find it.
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