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July 17th 05, 08:32 PM
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wrote in message ups.com... From: on Jul 16, 10:51 pm an_old_friend wrote: your point in these looks like biweekly updates? Simple: They provide a running record of the number of licensed amateurs in the USA, by license class. Growth and decline over time can be seen. And the information will be preserved as long as rrap is archived somewhere. Oh, woweeee. Is that like "preserved for posterity?" :-) Don't QRZ and Hamdata do any "archiving?" I'm sure the FCC does "archiving." After all, they are the ones granting the licenses, keeping the database... :-) It should be noted that the number of US hams grew slightly after the rules changes of April 2000, peaking in early 2003. Since then, all the gain has gone and the totals are now almost 10,000 below what they were before the rules changes. Based on "archived data" on Hamdata.com, the number of individual licensees on 16 July 2003 were 738,787. The number of individual licensees on 16 July 2005 were 721,542. That's a difference of 6,835...HARDLY anything close to "almost 10,000 below." Turns out that 6,835 is 68.35 percent of 10,000 and a LOT closer to two-thirds. I'm just using the total number of individual licensees. If I were to use "only" those who were not in the grace period, that number would be SMALLER than that, even farther from 10,000 that you state. So far, you haven't been able to do much in the way of Real Numbers, Mr. Engineer. Too much diesel smoke from the engine sooting up your notes? Tsk. Well, okay, maybe its all that "effort" to download the FCC publicly-available database clouded your thinking, right? You DO download that all by yourself, don't you? DSL you got, right? Then do the sorting by fields to get what you want? Did you write the program yourself or did you have help? Let us know, okay? Myself, all I need is to glance at Hamdata or QRZ website and trust them. shrug In here we have YOUR "service," right? [ e pluribus micollis ] [sounds like a microbe...] Did you know that your "service" postings for posterity have now reached "1800" posts on Google? Actually its only about 1200 by Google count...I used "1800" because that is about like your math of "almost 10,000"..."1800" is "almost like" 1200. :-) No, that's wrong! "800" is "almost like" 1200! But the Google message count hasn't changed! Amazing...you post more and it totals up less! :-) [fun with numbers!] So, Jimmah, what about the two Technician classes getting close to the 50% point? No snarly gotta-love-morse comments on that? Didn't you try to say all those Technicians were going to drastically DROP in numbers a year or so ago? Why haven't they dropped, oh servant seer to the grope? Quick, waste everyone's time with your old PCTA mantras chanted in here! dit dot Hello, Len I wonder what the number of engineers with BS or higher degrees is doing these days? Since we export jobs to India (for the smart stuff) and China (for the slave labor stuff), no one feels a need to know anything. This is not a rant for Morse (I think you know me better than that); rather a question as to whether or not folks care to expend even one iota of effort to learn anything of substance. We have more mystics around now and few folks of substance. I had to chuckle about a new website for hams, cbers, and folks that like to discuss *theoretical physics*?!?! Right. Perhaps we should hire a priest to sprinkle some Holy Water on the group to fix everything LOL. All one needs is a scientific calculator or compooter and punch the numbers in. Funny how some folks can't even make change without a calculator. Just punch the number into the calculator. Uh, was that +i or -i ... or was that j? Impedance? Um .... is that like series or parallel resistors? Just punch the numbers in. I certainly hope that someone understands what they are punching in. Gawd, what are these things? Resistors, but how are they connected. Someone said something about a bridge? Now what? Ohm ohm on the range ..... Have a good one, Len. I'm heading to the 'fridge to get a couple of tall, cool 807s. 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
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