In article om, "Dee D.
Flint" writes:

"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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Len Over 21 wrote:
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Three-fourths of all licensed U.S. radio amateurs "took that view"
and are NOT members.

You have no idea of the views held by those radio amateurs who are or
are not members of the ARRL, Leonard. You aren't a player from within
or without.


And there are simply a lot of people who are not joiners. What percent of
the seniors belong to AARP? What percent of gun owners belong to the NRA.

What percentage of US hams belong to NCI? (Less than 1%)


With 1/4 or so of the licensed amateurs belonging to ARRL, it would not be
surprising to if the ARRL were to rank quite high on the list of target
group people actually belonging to the organization.

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Three-fourths of all U.S. radio amateurs are NOT members.

Think on that, Klunk.

I've thought about it. One quarter of U.S. radio amateurs ARE members.
You are not in either camp.

More than 99% are not NCI members, either.

It would be interesting to compare the ARRL membership percentage to groups
like AARP and NRA

Good point!

I would add this, though:

There are currently about 684,000 individuals with US amateur radio licenses.
Of these, at least 328,000 hold General, Advanced or Extra class amateur
licenses. (I mention this group because they have access to all amateur radio
HF/MF bands and modes, at full power). Novices and "Techs with HF" make up at
least another 100,000, but their privileges only cover two modes and small
parts of four bands.

Not including the five 60 meter channels and the Alaska emergency frequency,
the US amateur bands below 30 MHz amount to 3,750 kHz of spectrum.

So why aren't the bands filled to overflowing with amateur signals 24/7? If
even 1% of those 328,000 are on the HF/MF bands at any given time, that's 3,280
- a litle more than a kHz per ham, from the bottom of 160 to the top of 10.
And that's not counting DX or Novices and Tech-Pluses.

A similar situation exists on VHF/UHF.

The inescapable conclusion is that many of those listed in the database are
either totally inactive or only slightly active.

73 de Jim, N2EY