Mike Coslo, wrote in :

This may be hard to quantify, Jim, but is there any data or even
educated guessing about how many Novices are still actually active?

- Mike KB3EIA -



Not hard to quantify at all. Any ham that only knows CW to 5 WPM is a
novice. New hams these days are all Novices. So the number of Novices on
the bands are actually increasing. Ten-Four Good buddy?