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.

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 June 2, 2007:

Novice - 21,940 (3.3%)
Technician - 287,530 (43.9%)
Technician Plus - 27,197 (4.2%)
General - 140,044 (21.4%)
Advanced - 67,809 (10.4%)
Extra - 110,428 (16.9%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 314,727 (48.1%)

Total all classes - 654,948


As of June 24, 2007:

Novice - 21,781 (3.3%)
Technician - 287,037 (43.8%)
Technician Plus - 26,507 (4.0%)
General - 141,042 (21.5%)
Advanced - 67,552 (10.3%)
Extra - 110,697 (16.9%)

Total Tech/TechPlus - 313,544 (47.9%)

Total all classes - 654,616


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 June 2, 2007:

Novice - decrease of 27,389
Technician - increase of 82,136
Technician Plus - decrease of 101,663
General - increase of 27,367
Advanced - decrease of 31,973
Extra - increase of 31,678

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 19,527

Total all classes - decrease of 19,844

From May 14, 2000, to June 24, 2007:

Novice - decrease of 27,548
Technician - increase of 81,643
Technician Plus - decrease of 102,353
General - increase of 28,365
Advanced - decrease of 32,330
Extra - increase of 31,947

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 20,710

Total all classes - decrease of 20,176


From February 22, 2007, to June 2, 2007:

Novice - decrease of 956
Technician - decrease of 5,978
Technician Plus - decrease of 3,621
General - increase of 9,906
Advanced - decrease of 1,241
Extra - increase of 2,158

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 9,599

Total all classes - increase of 268


From February 22, 2007, to June 24, 2007:

Novice - decrease of 1,115
Technician - decrease of 6,471
Technician Plus - decrease of 4,311
General - increase of 10,904
Advanced - decrease of 1,498
Extra - increase of 2,427

Total Tech/TechPlus - decrease of 10,782

Total all classes - decrease of 64


73 de Jim, N2EY