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Licensee Numbers Over Nine Months
On Dec 5, 7:33 pm, Mike Coslo wrote:
wrote in news:bee3b054-8d1d-4ea1-9361-d31412aa1b41 @s36g2000prg.googlegroups.com: IMHO, it is significant that the license numbers were slowly decreasing from 2003 to 2007, and are now slowly increasing. The growth may be slight but at least it is not a loss. The decrease in license numbers at that time very well might have been due to the uncertainty of the demise of element 1. I know several new hams that waited for it to go away. Interesting theory! I know at least one ham who waited for Element 1 to go away, too. If there's the possibility that the "price" of something will drop in the near future, "sales" of that item often drop as people decide to wait and see. The number of US hams rose from early 2000 to mid-2003, then began to decline almost exactly when the ITU treaty changed. But correlation is not causation. There are any number of possible reasons for the changes, ranging from sunspot decline to economic factors to inexpensive cell phones and broadband internet. The big question is whether the growth will continue long-term. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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