In article , "jakdedert"
writes:

What "die off"? The US manufacturers died off but the number of hams
just grew and grew...

Are they *still* growing? I think not....

Actually the number of US hams is still growing, but very slowly. See

http://www.ah0a.org

The slowdown in growth started about 10 years ago - long after the time periods
we were discussing.

73 de Jim, N2EY