Got my ham plates a week or two ago, was driving down the road today and saw a ham in my rear view.. took him a minute or two and then he pointed at my car to his wife and smiled the largest smile I’ve seen in a while. I waved and he sent a 73 on his horn as he drove off the other direction.
I sent back two bits and went mine.
Good on you OM.
Posted Oct 9, 2022, 6:24 AM UTC
He sent 73 on his horn in CW? That's impressive!
I send CQ on mine quite a bit, even with the air horn when I'm driving the 18-wheeler.
What I'm thinking about now, though, is bringing a lead from the horn relay in my car into the cabin and have a plug so I can use my Vibroplex on the horn!
Eons ago, our club's FD site was a group of farm buildings up on a hill. And every year, there was another group in tents down that hill about a half mile away. Many of us would horn-morse CQFD as we drove by, and they'd wave.
I hope to someday answer your air horn CQ, good sir.
Meh. CW ops do that often enough. I once traded calls with a guy while we were barreling down the highway.
Here in the UK it's illegal to use your hooter for no reason other then safety, it's like a £2000 per offence.
And then everyone clapped
I'd get ham plates in a second if ppl couldn't trace it back to my home.
I think you can use a P.O. Box. That might help.
There are so many other databases out there that have your home address that once you have someone's name you can pretty much do a few exact phrase searches on Google and find out a lot about them
Totally not worth it.
Exactly. I hear all the time about how people want the FCC database to obscure addresses. I often wonder is those same people know that property records are public information (google: <target city> GIS property search). License plates can be traced. VINs can be traced. Phone numbers can be traced. Addresses can be traced. There is very little benefit from obscuring any one source of info. I’d also argue that anyone trying to hide who they are is immediately signaling to those in the know that they are a person of interest. Sort of like saying given a choice between a door and a door with a lock, a their wants what is behind the locked door.
I get that. But just because every other system is broken doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix this system because I'm also for fixing those other systems. And fully aware that even a tenth of them will actually get fixed. It's just a false argument IMO.
Someone can get shot at a red light or in a parking lot when they get out of their car no matter what license plates are on their car.
But I guess if your personal focus is on tech, computers and the internet then you are 'much more likely' to be looked up on the FCC ULS and eventually murdered that way. (/s)
General delivery also works lol
I understand this argument. However I'm also not aware that anything negative has ever happened.
Me either, but I still don't want to chance it. All it takes is a quick Google.
I'm not aware of anything happening by tracing a call sign, either. Hmmm....
I don’t think the average person knows what a call sign is you’ll be alright
Not worried about "the average person." 🤔
How many ham radio operators who are familiar with call signs are murderous psychopaths 😄
Ham vs ham road rage
"I know where you live and your preferred frequencies, sucka!" 🤣
how hard do you think it is to find out where someone lives without a ham plate?
you're also assuming that the average person has any clue that you can look up a callsign and find a name and address.
(assuming you're in the US)
Not worried about "the average person." 🤔
As far as I know, you can't really figure out someone's address with their plate info with a standard plate.
But say your plate has your callsign and they google it, things they may see:
At that point anyone could probably figure out further information on you by searching your name, city and state, even if they DONT know about the FCC ULS search
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How do you feel about this issue?
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The rest of the civilized world manages not to doxx their citizens' amateur licenseholders, yet in your telling of it, it's the US hams that would like to preserve their privacy that are being unreasonable. Cool.
Post your call sign. You won't
YoU kNEw ThE RuLEs
Really? That’s the best response you could muster? lmao even when adjusted for ham groups that’s one hell of a special comment.
Post your full name, callsign and residential address here and now on Reddit.
If you don't then why not?
Clearly talking rubbish you don't believe in to cause a stir.