These are the number of current, unexpired FCC-issued amateur radio
licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of
the total number of active licenses that class contains.

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

These totals do not include licenses that have expired but are in the
grace period, nor do they include club, military and other station-only
licenses.

Effective April 15, 2000, FCC no longer issued new Novice, Technician
Plus and Advanced class licenses, so the numbers of those license
classes have declined steadily since then.

Also since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus
licenses as Technician. The number of Technician Plus licenses still in
effect is now less than 1000, and by May 2010 they should all be gone.

It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes,
since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician
Plus licenses renewed as Technician.

On February 23, 2007, the last Morse Code test element, the 5 wpm
receiving test, was eliminated as a requirement.

The current total number now exceeds the May 14, 2000 number.

The ARS License Numbers:

As of May 14, 2000:

Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus -
128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%)
Extra - 78,750 (11.7%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%)

Total all classes - 674,792


As of February 22, 2007:

Novice - 22,896 (3.5%) Technician - 293,508 (44.8%) Technician Plus -
30,818 (4.7%) General - 130,138 (19.9%) Advanced - 69,050 (10.5%) Extra
- 108,270 (16.5%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 324,326 (49.5%)

Total all classes - 654,680


As of August 21, 2009:

Novice - 17,308 (2.6%) Technician - 329,427 (48.8%) Technician Plus -
626 (0.1%) General - 148,908 (22.0%) Advanced - 61,018 (9.0%) Extra -
118,143 (17.5%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 330,053 (48.9%)

Total all classes - 675,430


Changes:

From May 14, 2000, to February 22, 2007:

Novice - decrease of 26,433 Technician - increase of 88,114 Technician
Plus - decrease of 98,042 General - increase of 17,461 Advanced -
decrease of 30,732 Extra - increase of 29,520

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 9,928

Total all classes - decrease of 20,112


From May 14, 2000, to August 21, 2009:

Novice - decrease of 32,021 Technician - increase of 124,033 Technician
Plus - decrease of 128,234 General - increase of 36,231 Advanced -
decrease of 38,764 Extra - increase of 39,393

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 4,201

Total all classes - increase of 638


From February 22, 2007, to August 21, 2009:

Novice - decrease of 5,588 Technician - increase of 35,919 Technician
Plus - decrease of 30,192 General - increase of 18,770 Advanced -
decrease of 8,032 Extra - increase of 9,873

Total Tech/TechPlus - increase of 5,727

Total all classes - increase of 20,750

73 de Jim, N2EY