wrote:

It's been about six weeks since the rules change, and
there hasn't been any tremendous increase in the number
of new hams nor a huge number of upgrades. Yes, there
have been more than in previous months but it's hardly
enough to be a "revolution".

March's final numbers are in.

Continuing with the trend in previous months, we saw a continued downward
trend in the total number of licensed amateurs. In fact, since Speroni has
been keeping statistics since 1997, the total number of licensed amateurs in
March 07 -- a month after the "no-code 'revolution'" -- is at a historic
low.

Also, for the first time since 1994, we saw an actual *decrease* in the
number of licensed Technican-class operators.


If these observations bear out into the future, all the "revolution" managed
to accomplish is give a bunch of no-code techs HF privileges, and did little
else to "bring new blood" into the hobby, like some people have claimed for
decades the code test was prohibiting.

73
kh6hz