From: Leo on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:25:53 -0500

On Feb 9, 2:17?am, " wrote:
From: Leo on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:49:50 -0500
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From: Leo on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:35:00 -0500
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From: Leo on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:03:16 -0500
On 7 Feb 2007 15:29:04 -0800, wrote:
On Feb 7, 4:40?pm, Leo wrote:
On 7 Feb 2007 03:25:23 -0800, wrote:


So you admit, Len, that FCC did indeed create CB long before 1958.

They created an impractical CB service which would later be replaced
with a far more practical one in '58.

I wonder what part of CB eludes Cranky Spanky's understanding?

"CB" AS IT IS KNOWN *NOW* has been around for 49 years.
Certainly for 48 years since the original ELEVEN METER
CITIZENS BAND's two new allocations were announced later
in 1958. Note: One MUST be SUPER ACCURATE in saying
anything to Cranky Spanky; any approximation will be
punishable by his being on your case for his 7-year
itching. :-)


Thanks for owning up to your earlier factual error.

LOL!

I can just see L'Enfant Terrible* reading Radio & Television
News magazine in 1958 when it had a feature article on
this new Citizens Band - L'Enfant slams down the magazine
and shouts to the world, "IT WAS ALREADY THERE YOU IDIOTS,
ADMIT IT!!! RADIO AND TELEVISION NEWS IS WRONG! WRONG!
WRONG! AND MAKES FACTUAL ERRORS!!!!!!" Then he stalked off
looking for mommie and a clean pair of training pants.

* sounds very classy when Alex Trebek says it on "Jeopardy"
but it has the same meaning as "mean little kid." :-)

The number of Technician class amateur licenses has never exceeded the
number of licenses of all other amateur license classes combined. You
were wrong on that too, some days back.

A fact, perhaps....at last!

(whew - that took a while!)

Not quite...

From the daily stats at www.hamdata.com for 10 Feb 07,
14:19 UTC:

Technician 311,157
Technician Plus 40,654
Novice 29,253
General 142,153
Advanced 76,664
Extra 111,393
Club Calls 10,329
Total, ALL 721,603

Club Calls can be subracted from the Total since they are
not those of individuals. In that case the total number
of INDIVIDUAL USA amateur radio licensees is 711,274.
Based on 711,274 individuals, the percentage of licensees
by class is, by 10 Feb 07:

Technician 43.75%
Technician Plus 5.72%
Novice 4.11%
General 19.99%
Advanced 10.78%
Extra 15.66%

Technician and Technician Plus together = 351,811 or 49.46%

50% of 711,274 is exactly 355,637 or 3,826 more than 351,811.

If this sissy-fuss wants to keep rolling his "factual error"
rock uphill all the time, let him. [that's a play on words
for all youse who be un-eddycated, about the mythical king
Sisyphus] However, all should be able to get the "sissy-fuss"
moniker since Cranky be da sissy and all fussy-fussy about
"accuracy." :-)

On the home page of www.hamdata.com is a small block of
licensee numbers for the last 12 months:

New Licensees: 22,006
Expired Licenses: 28,618

Based on that the LOSS in 12 Months = 6,612

There's NO WAY of escaping the NUMERICAL FACT that USA
amateur radio licensee numbers are DECREASING, and have
been decreasing for nearly 4 years.

The pro-coders' constant argument is "the original no-code
techs grace period is up and they've quit ham radio" or
words to that effect. Oh, my, but that does NOT make sense
when NEW "no-code techs" are INCREASING at an average rate
of THIRTY-TWO per day! The is by far the greatest increase
per class.

Cranky has many times tried to rationalize that the
amateur extra is the "largest increasing class" but, again,
the numbers never fitted his "explanation." However,
Cranky is an extra, so therefore he is "right." :-)
Upgraders are those already licensed who are just changing
their license class...they neither increase nor decrease
the total number of licensees.

Based on that Hamdata data of 28,618 EXPIRATIONS
in 12 months, that represents a LOSS of 78 per day in
the USA! [28,618 / 365 = 78.405] If the newcomers
weren't coming in via the no-code tech route, the
USA ham license totals would have been shrinking much
faster.

But, but, but...cry the rationalizing a-souls of the
morse persuasion, *WE* don't change (they probably claim
immortality as well, as Robesin once did in here).
They are NEVER wrong, by their own implicit perfection
of encyclical utterance. Ave. Sigh.

Bon your,
LA