Subject: Fun with numbers
From: (Len Over 21)
Date: 4/11/2004 4:21 PM Central Standard Time
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For what it's worth, as of 6 April 2004, there were 282,948
no-code-test Technicians in the FCC ham database. That's a
whopping 38.9 percent of all licensees who cannot, legally,
operate on ham bands below 6 meters. That number is almost
twice as big as the 146,174 or 20.1 percent who were General
class licensees on that date.
For what it's worth, all 282,948 of those no-code-test Technicians were
free to take the appropriate examination and receive authorization to operate
on HF.
As of 6 April 2004, no person has ever been barred, restrained, detained,
blocked or otherwise impeded from taking ANY Amateur Radio exam by any other
person or entity, private or public, real or imagined.
Advanced class were 84,507 or 11.6 percent and Amateur
Extras were 107,343 or 14.8 percent. Novice was only
38,814 or 5.3 percent and Technician Plus almost twice that
at 67,359 or 9.3 percent.
There WOULD be a significant playground "threat" should the
no-code-test Technicians get a piece of the HF action. Might
be true doom and gloom plus the hue and cry of alarum from
those who think that HF was made only for Them.
And who would "Them", be, Lennie?
Should be clear that HF denizens need more space to play.
Nobody seems to be active on doing that. All that happened
in the relatively recent time resulted in five "channels" on 60 m.
According to NTIA Spectrum Projections, an endnote says
that ARRL "requested more bandspace" a dozen years ago.
The only thing on the current WRC-07 agenda is the 136 KHz
LF band consideration "for study."
Where are all the bandspace Activists?
Living on Lanark and bragging about how they don't need an Amateur license
to put a Part 15 transmitter on an Amateur allocation...As if they were really
capable of doing it...
Steve, K4YZ