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. 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 for any class of US
amateur radio license.

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 February 22, 2010:

Novice - 16,878 (2.5%) Technician - 335,694 (49.0%) Technician Plus -
115 (0.1%) General - 151,663 (22.1%) Advanced - 60,586 (8.8%) Extra -
119,806 (17.5%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 335,809 (49.0%)

Total all classes - 684,742


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 February 22, 2010:

Novice - decrease of 32,451 Technician - increase of 130,300 Technician
Plus - decrease of 128,745 General - increase of 38,986 Advanced -
decrease of 39,196 Extra - increase of 41,056

Total Tech/TechPlus - increase of 1,555

Total all classes - increase of 9,950


From February 22, 2007, to February 22, 2010:

Novice - decrease of 6,018 Technician - increase of 42,186 Technician
Plus - decrease of 30,703 General - increase of 21,525 Advanced -
decrease of 8,464 Extra - increase of 11,536

Total Tech/TechPlus - increase of 11,483

Total all classes - increase of 30,062

73 de Jim, N2EY