From: an_old_friend on Jul 16, 10:14 pm


your point in these looks like biweekly updates?

He feels "important" and "of service" to the "amateur community.

Never mind that he cribs from www.qrz.com which is what anyone
can do...or even www.hamdata.com.


wrote:
These are the numbers of current, unexpired
amateur radio licenses held by individuals
on the stated dates:

As of May 14, 2000:

That's very nice but the PEAK of licensing happened on
2 July 2003. shrug

As of the end of 16 July 2005, www.hamdata.com had the
following number of licensees per class, obtained from the
publicly-available FCC database;

Technician 294,523 (40.80%)
Technician Plus 55,280 ( 7.66%)
Novice 33,521 ( 4.64%)
General 146,748 (20.33%)
Advanced 82,371 (11.41%)
Extra 109,509 (15.17%)

Total Individual 721,952 [less 9,590 "club" calls]

In the last 12 months there were 16,149 NEW licenses granted
but there were 19,086 expirations for a net gain of -2,937.

In the last 24 months there was an overall gain of -6,835
licenses.

The total of Technician and Technician Plus licensees now
make up 48.46% of all individual licensees. The number of
Technician class licensees is over twice as many as Generals.


Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new
Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses
are no longer issued, and that all existing
Technician Plus licenses are being renewed as
Technician.

Note also that, effective 1934, the FCC is the civil radio
regulating agency in the United States. [might as well be
"complete" about old notices... :-) ]

bit bit