The GP's attitude is why a lot of people are afraid of trying amateur radio: when you apply for a license in the US, your address is published. It doesn't have

The GP's attitude is why a lot of people are afraid of trying amateur radio: when you apply for a license in the US, your address is published. It doesn't have to be your home address and can be a post box, but you do have to be able to receive mail there. When you apply for your license in Germany, you can elect to not have your home and secondary station addresses published. While looking up potential callsigns for my application, I noticed that about half of the female-looking names chose not to publish their addresses. I wonder how many women and other vulnerable people are staying away from amateur radio in the US because they can't take the risk of publicly revealing any sort of address they can receive mail at.