Hobby Phone

is it possible to have a hobby phone that is not attached to your personal invormation (i.e. name, address, etc)?

Yes trac phones work well.

I've used both T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile (a highly humorous company name to use for hobby phone service...) prepaid phones in the same way. In both instances, bought the phones at a retail outlet for cash, activated online (do the activation at a public Internet cafe or something if you want to eliminate trackability down to that level), all airtime refills paid for in cash. After initial activation, all airtime refills applied directly from the hobby phone itself.

This won't totally cover your tracks if you're really, really concerned about being identified. Someone with the right resources could find out from the carrier what store the phone was sold at, and dig up store surveillance video to identify you. If you carry a "real life" phone at the same time, someone (again, with enough resources) could dig through all the cell tower records to find other phones that are *always* hitting the same towers, at the same time, as the hobby phone. Someone who was determined enough, and willing to throw enough time and money at the problem, could still identify you.

But, for the stuff most of us care about - minor LE entanglements (where they're not going to throw all that time and resources into finding someone while investigating a minor misdemeanor), snooping spouses and SO's, probably even most private detectives that might be hired by the aforementioned snooping spouses and SO's - I don't think you'd have anything to worry about...

Thank you...i will check out TracPhone.

Remember, use CASH, NOT credit card to pay for the phone and minutes. Credit cards leave electronic trail. Best to purchase somewhere like Walmart where they sell hundreds of them.
Recommend getting a simple, throwaway phone - nothing fancy (and no camera). When storing your phone, keep it at a location where your SO will not find it. Take the battery out too so (1) if it accidently gets turned on, the battery will not die, causing the phone to beep (or chirp); (2) less chance of electronic surveillance (being a bit paranoid). Needless to say, delete all records after use so if the SO does find it, there are no records. Beat up the phone a bit so that if your SO finds it, you can say you just found it somewhere.
Good luck!

Use your neighbor's phone. There is no way for it to back to you.