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Largest Amateur Radio Organization?
On Feb 15, 11:01�am, Dave Heil wrote:
wrote: On Feb 14, 11:36?pm, Dave Heil wrote: In amateur radio, it is the biggest potato there is, here in the U.S. Actually, Dave, I think the ARRL may be the largest amateur radio organization in the world, or at least the largest national amateur radio organization. I think you're correct. According to www.AH0A.org, JARL membership is now well under 100,000. What other amateur radio organization even comes close to 100,000 members? I hedged my bet, thinking of JARL. Their membership has been cut almost in half in the past ten years. It follows closely the numerical decline of Japanese amateur radio in general. I remember how, ten years or so ago, the large numbers of Japanese amateurs was touted as proof of the need for a nocodetest license with HF privileges. Japan was held up as the poster country for code test reduction/elimination. (Japan has had such a license for decades. They used a creative interpretation of the treaty coupled with very lower power limits for the nocodetest class of license). *I have a few copies of Japan's "CQ Ham Radio" which are as thick as big city phone books. How old are they? Judging by the number of stations, the USA has regained the lead as the country with the most licensed amateurs. While Japanese operator license numbers are higher, it should be remembered that those licenses never expire. Thus an amateur who progressed through the four JA license classes 50 years ago increases the Japanese operator license total by four, even if the amateur became a Silent Key decades ago. The number of Japanese operator licenses shown on the AH0A website is really an indication of how many amateurs have been licensed in that country since 1952, not how many are currently licensed. Imagine if the US kept license totals that way! 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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