AF6AY wrote:
Based on the period of 3 March 2007 to 3 December 2007, the US
amateur radio individual licensee totals have changed as follows:

New: 20,901 Expired: 19,739

Compared to an averaged 9 month period prior to 3 March 2007:*

New: 16,957 Expired: 21,822

In short, nothing much has happened to numbers, no significant
changes either way. Class changes are another matter. All data
obtained from www.hamdata.com FCC Information page.


Interesting numbers, Len

We have a continuation of the dropoff of (almost certainly) inactive
Hams. Not too surprising there, if a person subscribes to the idea that
a lot of folks who once used 2 meters as a sort of "pre cell phone cell
phone" had migrated over to cell phones to get their communication needs
taken care of.

I think that that will continue until around 2009-10.

The number that I think is most important is the new license numbers.
People are still getting licenses, and at a healthy rate.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -