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These are the numbers of amateur licenses held by individuals on the
stated dates: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 Technician - 205,394 Technician Plus - 128,860 General - 112,677 Advanced - 99,782 Extra - 78,750 Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 Total all classes - 674,792 As of November 30, 2004: Novice - 29,935 (decrease of 19,394) Technician - 265,198 (increase of 59,804) Technician Plus - 54,881 (decrease of 73,979) General - 138,471 (increase of 25,794) Advanced - 78,163 (decrease of 21,619) Extra - 105,991 (increase of 27,253) Total Tech/TechPlus - 320,079 (decrease of 14,175) Total all classes - 672,639 (decrease of 2153) 73 de Jim, N2EY |
Total Tech/TechPlus - 320,079 (decrease of 14,175)
Total all classes - 672,639 (decrease of 2153) Yep that dumbing down sure is helping. |
The numbers don't lie. People are..."Movin' On Up"
N2PZK Howie |
These are the numbers of amateur licenses held by individuals on the
stated dates: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 Technician - 205,394 Technician Plus - 128,860 General - 112,677 Advanced - 99,782 Extra - 78,750 Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 Total all classes - 674,792 As of December 14, 2004: Novice - 29,829 (decrease of 19,500) Technician - 265,134 (increase of 59,740) Technician Plus - 54,449 (decrease of 74,411) General - 138,280 (increase of 25,603) Advanced - 78,024 (decrease of 21,758) Extra - 106,019 (increase of 27,269) Total Tech/TechPlus - 319,633 (decrease of 14,621) Total all classes - 671,785 (decrease of 3,007) 73 de Jim, N2EY |
Yep more proof that DUMBING DOWN is working.
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These are the numbers of amateur licenses held by individuals on the
stated dates: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 Technician - 205,394 Technician Plus - 128,860 General - 112,677 Advanced - 99,782 Extra - 78,750 Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 Total all classes - 674,792 As of December 31, 2004: Novice - 29,765 (decrease of 19,564) Technician - 265,534 (increase of 60,140) Technician Plus - 54,152 (decrease of 74,708) General - 138,287 (increase of 25,610) Advanced - 77,948 (decrease of 21,834) Extra - 106,087 (increase of 27,337) Total Tech/TechPlus - 319,686 (decrease of 14,568) Total all classes - 671,773 (decrease of 3019) 73 es HNY de Jim, N2EY |
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In article , Mike Coslo
writes: wrote: These are the numbers of amateur licenses held by individuals on the stated dates: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 Technician - 205,394 Technician Plus - 128,860 General - 112,677 Advanced - 99,782 Extra - 78,750 Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 Total all classes - 674,792 As of December 31, 2004: Novice - 29,765 (decrease of 19,564) Technician - 265,534 (increase of 60,140) Technician Plus - 54,152 (decrease of 74,708) General - 138,287 (increase of 25,610) Advanced - 77,948 (decrease of 21,834) Extra - 106,087 (increase of 27,337) Total Tech/TechPlus - 319,686 (decrease of 14,568) Total all classes - 671,773 (decrease of 3019) 73 es HNY de Jim, N2EY So Jim, filtering out the big drop due to the "honeydo" Technicians dropping out, what are the numbers? You see them above, Mike. Of course some "honeydo" Techs, Novices and Tech Pluses are dropping out. And some of the older hams are dying off. But beyond that it's all speculation. When we see that big 14.5K drop in Technicians, I would assume that some of the drop was due to upgrading, but most to that dropoff. There's no way to tell from the data. Remember that the number of Tech Pluses is dropping for three reasons: 1) Licenses allowed to expire 2) Upgrades to General and Extra 3) Tech Pluses renewed as Technicians If the rules are simply left as-is, there will be no more Tech Pluses in 5 years and 4 months from now. They will all have gone one of the three routes listed above. All in all, when considering that big deficit, it looks like we could be climbing out of that hole eventually? We were told in 1990 that dropping the code test for Tech would cause growth. We got some growth in the short term. Then we were told in the late 1990s that dropping 13 and 20 wpm, and simplifying the writtens, would cause growth. Again we got some growth in the short term. In neither case did we get long term growth. Perhaps the problem isn't the tests? 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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