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When the data attempts to force the fact that doom is
comming--re-arrange the data and argue like hell!!! Of course, that is how the doom occurred in the first place! John wrote in message oups.com... From: on Jun 1, 9:15 pm These are the numbers of current, unexpired amateur licenses held by individuals on the stated dates: As of May 14, 2000: deleted, four-year-old data, grace periods are only 2 years As of May 31, 2005: Novice - 28,370 (decrease of 20,959) Technician - 268,575 (increase of 63,181) Technician Plus - 49,098 (decrease of 79,762) General - 136,581 (increase of 23,904) Advanced - 76,119 (decrease of 23,663) Extra - 106,707 (increase of 27,957) Total Tech/TechPlus - 317,673 (decrease of 16,581) Total all classes - 665,450 (decrease of 9,342) Note that these totals do not include licenses that have expired but are in the grace period. They also do not include club, military, RACES or other station-only licenses That's simply untrue, . Military "calls" are assigned by the MILITARY. FCC has NO legal jurisdiction over USA military OR government radio. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus or Advanced licenses are no longer issued, and that all existing Technician Plus licenses are being renewed as Technician. An absolutely IMPORTANT clarification to obscure the fact that no-code-test Technicians are condescendingly sponged into the MORSE-TESTED totals. Here's the totals of ALL AMATEUR licenses as given by www.hamdata.com as of 5 June 2005, with "delta" relative to those same classes two years ago...and the percentage of total 2005-date licenses less 9,550 "Club" calls: Class Licenses Delta Percentage Technician (no-code-test) 293,613 +19,932 40.64 Technician Plus 56,161 -19,480 7.77 Novice 34,116 -8,331 4.72 General 144,802 +1,855 20.30 Advanced 82,902 -3,322 11.43 Extra 109,325 +3,678 15.13 Total Less "Club" calls 722,452 -5,668* 99.99** * 2003 all-license totals were 736,616 or which 8,496 were "Club" calls so the Delta for comparison is 728,120. ** Percentage totals do not add up to precisely 100% due to arithmetic round-off to hundredths. Note: "Club" calls include all the non-individual license grants. As of the hamdata.com figures for this Sunday, 5 Jun 05, NO-CODE-TEST Technician Class licensees outnumber General Class licensees by an almost exact 2:1 ratio. [General class licensees WERE the largest in old days, no more] Nota Bene: The total licenses for the no-code-test Technician Class, 293,613, do NOT include the "Tech Plus" total licenses of 56,161. [let's stop this foolish "lumping-together" by rather obvious PCTAs in trying to embelish the sanctity and nobility of morsemanship] ALL license classes in the Technician (no-code-test), General, and Amateur Extra classes have the SAME grace period. If current Novice or Advanced license holders don't RETEST, they go bye-bye, get defunct, disappear from that great database. The current percentage of NO-CODE-TEST Technician class licensees now make up slightly over FORTY PERCENT of all classes. It is obviously the most populous of ALL classes and CONTINUES TO GROW. Neglecting that singular LARGE class of radio amateurs is foolish pipe-dreaming or weird personal fantasizing. We now return you to the regularly scheduled PCTA rationalization party in progress... |
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