On Mar 3, 7:11�pm, "Dee Flint" wrote:

*2) *Calculation of the number of licenses will be done by N2EY under the
*same principals that he uses now to calculate the number of licenses.

Miccolis hasn't explained HOW he got the data. The "same
principles" as NOTHING would be the thing. Does he do
a download of the publicly-available 80+ MB daily database
file from the FCC? What are his totalization conditionals
for deriving his class totals? What kind of computer program
does he use to search and sort 700K+ data entries?

There IS data from a number of websites doing that such as
www.nm7d.org and www.hamdata.com and hamcall.net.
Even the ARRL supplies totals albeit in an indirect way!

For contests a disinterest third-party source of figures is
better as a reference.

73, LA