Subject: ARS License Numbers
From: PAMNO (N2EY)
Date: 7/17/2004 10:23 AM Central Standard Time
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In article ,
(Steve
Robeson K4CAP) writes:

These are the number of unexpired FCC ARS
licenses held by individuals on the dates listed:

As of May 14, 2000:
Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254
Total all classes - 674,792

As of July 15, 2004:
Total Tech/TechPlus - 320,527 (decrease of 13,727)
Total all classes - 675,620 (increase of 828)

Hmmmmmmmmm........

The codeless class is dwindling while the overall numbers are climbing.

No, that's not what's happening, Steve.

We don't really know how many nocodetest Technicians there are anymore. FCC
has
been renewing Tech Plus as Techs for 51 months now, so an unknown number of
current Techs are code-tested. In addition, an unknown number of Novices have
upgraded to Tech, and an unknown number of Techs hold Element 1 CSCEs.

Then that makes it all-the-more remarkable, Jim...since that number of
"Technicians" is even further diluted since "some quantity" of thier numbers
are "coded" operators.

73

Steve, K4YZ