Serious Question About Profile Info

[WSFP960]

Hello everyone.

 

  I am new here and I am just getting comfortable using this site.  I have a question about completing my profile.  The website shows my profile a 0% completed.  When I click on the button to complete my profile the very first screen that comes up has two info fields.  The first is my GRMS call sign, the second is my Ham license #.  I do not fill in the ham license because I do not have a ham license.  It has a skip this step feature and a continue feature.  Both buttons drop me out of the profile info page, and return me to the last age I was on.  

 

I do not have a ham license and because of this I can't complete my profile here?  I am a simple guy so if I am missing something it would be greatly appreciated if I could figure out how to continue.  I am using this site on my Windows Surface Pro with Windows 11 installed.  any help would be welcome. I did several searches of the forums before I posted so I apologize if this is a redundant question.

 

Wsfp960 

[TrikeRadio]

i just put   *NONE*    in for my HAM license since I also do not have one.

[tcp2525]

It's voluntary. You can put as much in your profile or not. I kept mine blank.

[Raybestos]

4 hours ago, TrikeRadio said:

i just put   *NONE*    in for my HAM license since I also do not have one.

Sorry, but I had to do it.  I went and looked up ham call "N0NE" or N (Zero) NE.  A gentleman in Tennessee has that as his call sign.   

[73blazer]

Like my census form, I like my profile at 1% complete.

[TrikeRadio]

6 hours ago, Raybestos said:

Sorry, but I had to do it.  I went and looked up ham call "N0NE" or N (Zero) NE.  A gentleman in Tennessee has that as his call sign.   

HA! Well.. mine has an asterisk at both ends.

[WRUU653]

@WSFP960 It wont effect you one way or the other, you're good. Wecome to the forum.

[SvenMarbles]

It's a little annoying that it even asks about a ham radio call. As if to imply some sort of relationship between GMRS and Amateur radio. 

[73blazer]

On 1/18/2025 at 9:19 AM, SvenMarbles said:

It's a little annoying that it even asks about a ham radio call. As if to imply some sort of relationship between GMRS and Amateur radio. 

I think they just put it there in case you had one and wanted to share, you could fill it in. The caveat being the way the profile section is configured it shows percent complete and it seems to irk some people they can't get to 100%. The better action is to remove the percent complete business from the profile, as this isn't the first time this question has been asked. 

[SteveShannon]

On 1/18/2025 at 7:19 AM, SvenMarbles said:

It's a little annoying that it even asks about a ham radio call. As if to imply some sort of relationship between GMRS and Amateur radio. 

Not really. I enjoy knowing who else is a ham. I use an alerting software when I do FT8 that watches for specific call signs. I might run into them on the air sometime. 
Like most aspects of life folks should simply ignore it if it doesn’t apply to them. 

[WRHS218]

40 minutes ago, SteveShannon said:

Like most aspects of life folks should simply ignore it if it doesn’t apply to them. 

How am I supposed to be mad about things that have nothing to do with me if I IGNORE them?

[SteveShannon]

4 minutes ago, WRHS218 said:

How am I supposed to be mad about things that have nothing to do with me if I IGNORE them?

There’s a real truth bomb!

[SvenMarbles]

1 hour ago, SteveShannon said:

Not really. I enjoy knowing who else is a ham. I use an alerting software when I do FT8 that watches for specific call signs. I might run into them on the air sometime. 
Like most aspects of life folks should simply ignore it if it doesn’t apply to them. 

It's not that it keeps me awake at night. But this larger invasive mentality that GMRS should be treated as a ham radio jr is a problem, and the little ham call field in the profile areas of this site is an artifact of that..

[Lscott]

27 minutes ago, SvenMarbles said:

It's not that it keeps me awake at night. But this larger invasive mentality that GMRS should be treated as a ham radio jr is a problem, and the little ham call field in the profile areas of this site is an artifact of that..

Who cares? I don't.