"Leo" wrote in message
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On 11 Feb 2004 00:00:18 GMT, (N2EY) wrote:
In article , Leo
writes:
Except for Japanese 4th class licensees, how many hams are there in the
rest of
the planet?
Well, my trusty EuroCall 2003 CD lists 276,446 callsigns in Europe
alone - even if a couple of guys died, there's probably more than that
now. I don't have figures for Asia, Africa, Oceania or the rest of
the Americas (except that there's around 56,000 or so up here...).
Quite a few, anyway! DX wouldn't be the same without 'em..... 
Excluding Japan, the last time I checked the Radio Amateur Call book listed
about 600,000+ for the combined rest of the world. Roughly equal to the
number of US Amateurs.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE