Jon Bloom wrote in message g...

But as you point out, nobody really knows what "operate" means in this
case. For example, if a person's entire use of Morse code is to copy
repeater IDs, which they do by laboriously copying down the dots and
dashes and then looking up the letters in a table, is that "operation" of
Morse? The survey doesn't say.

Hmmmm. Are you saying that the "Operate CW" numbers are inflated?