[K0NR] Ten Year Trends in US Ham Licenses
 

Post : Ten Year Trends in US Ham Licenses
URL : http://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/2015/1...-ham-licenses/
Posted : December 22, 2015 at 12:00 pm
Author : K0NR
Categories : FCC, Ham Radio

In November 2005, I took a look at some statistics on FCC amateur radio
licenses (
http://www.k0nr.com/blog/2005/11/som...tatistics.html ) . At
that time, I compared the number of ham licenses to such things as the US
population, number of cell phones in use and the number of birdwatchers in
the US. Interesting stuff.

Ten years later, we can take a look at the how the composition of FCC
licenses has changed. The total number of licenses has grown to over 733k,
increasing 11% over 10 years. This is a small growth rate, only 1% Compound
Annual Growth Rate (CAGR).

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