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Who's got a fun hobby they want to share?
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Do you still get doxed by policy as a ham? If so, that's going to drive off several vulnerable groups.
Effectively yes. You are required to identify your station by callsign every 10 minutes on the air, and your callsign is a matter of public record. It's how the likes of the ARRL suddenly knows how to mail you shit when you get your license. The only encrypted transmission on the amateur bands that's legal is control signals for satellites.
I know the public registry has, in the past, been a barrier to entry. Nice to see that it's still in place so only people who don't have targets painted on their backs can enter the hobby.
If you have a pilot's license or own an airplane your name is similarly on a registry of public record.
It is a good reason not to post your callsign on the internet. I am an amateur radio operator, you will not learn my callsign.
Yes. The noted popular-to-vulnerable-people hobby of flying an airplane.
Quick question (and an honest one: I genuinely don't know): can I get the name, address, and telephone number of any aircraft pilot? 'Cause I can with ham ops.
Yes.
Nope.
Pilots can opt out.
Hams cannot:
That's the only bone the RCC will throw your way privacy-wise.