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September 17th 04, 12:49 AM

Subject: ARS License Numbers
From: (William)
Date: 9/16/2004 5:38 PM Central Standard Time
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(N2EY) wrote in message
...
In article , "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

Total all classes - 673,994 (decrease of 798)

This is the first time a decrease in the total number of individual
licenses has been observed since the restructuring of April 15, 2000.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Interesting.

Very!

Someone needs to make it clear to the overall population that
with the reduction of the code requirement to 5wpm across the board (none
for Tech) that they were supposed to jump into ham radio in overwhelming
numbers and lead to magnificent growth in the number of hams.

Or maybe it wasn't the code test after all....

Jim, when did we lose the code test?

I guess reading what was wrote was a bit too challenging?

Someone needs to make it clear to the overall population that
with the reduction of the code requirement to 5wpm across the board (none
for Tech) that they were supposed to jump into ham radio in overwhelming
numbers and lead to magnificent growth in the number of hams.

The "Code Test" has not been an issue for over 35% of the Amateur
community for over 13 years now, Brian.

Had you been paying attention...

Steve, K4YZ