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ARS License Numbers
These are the numbers of current, unexpired
amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%) Extra - 78,750 (11.7%) Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%) Total all classes - 674,792 As of October 15, 2005: Novice - 27,606 (4.2%) [decrease of 21,723] Technician - 272,111 (41.0%) [increase of 66,717) Technician Plus - 45,994 (6.9%) [decrease of 82,866] General - 135,881 (20.5%) [increase of 23,204] Advanced - 75,043 (11.3%) [decrease of 24,739] Extra - 107,178 (16.1%) [increase of 28,428] Total Tech/TechPlus - 318,105 (47.9%) [decrease of 16,149] Total all classes - 663,788 (decrease of 11,004) 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. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses are no longer issued. Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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ARS License Numbers
These are the numbers of current, unexpired
amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%) Extra - 78,750 (11.7%) Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%) Total all classes - 674,792 As of October 31, 2005: Novice - 27,410 (4.1%) [decrease of 21,919] Technician - 272,682 (41.1%) [increase of 67,288] Technician Plus - 45,612 (6.9%) [decrease of 83,258] General - 135,711 (20.4%) [increase of 23,034] Advanced - 74,900 (11.3%) [decrease of 24,882] Extra - 107,216 (16.2%) [increase of 28,466] Total Tech/TechPlus - 318,294 (48.0%) [decrease of 15,960] Total all classes - 663,531 (decrease of 11,261) 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. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses are no longer issued. Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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ARS License Numbers
Who CHECKS YOUR WORK?
From which website did you obtain this "figures?" How do you KNOW that all those in the grace period have NOT renewed? Without CHECKING those "figures" they would not be ACCURATE. [very UNprofessional!] WHY is it "informative" that you must continue to do the "Speroni Stats" maneuver to "lump" the Technician classes together? Tsk, tsk, tsk...quite a "track record of mistakes there..." bit bit |
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ARS License Numbers
These are the numbers of current, unexpired
amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%) Extra - 78,750 (11.7%) Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%) Total all classes - 674,792 As of November 15, 2005: Novice - 27,303 (4.1%) [decrease of 22,026] Technician - 273,291 (41.2%) [increase of 67,897] Technician Plus - 45,263 (6.8%) [decrease of 83,597] General - 135,676 (20.4%) [increase of 22,999] Advanced - 74,836 (11.3%) [decrease of 24,946] Extra - 107,297 (16.2%) [increase of 28,547] Total Tech/TechPlus - 318,554 (48.0%) [decrease of 15,700] Total all classes - 663,666 (decrease of 11,126) 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. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses are no longer issued. Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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ARS License Numbers
From: on Nov 16, 5:53 pm
These are the numbers of current, unexpired amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: As of November 15, 2005: So, from which website did Jimmie CRIB these numbers? Does Jimmie know there are OTHER websites with this information? Jimmie hasn't given those. Does Jimmie download the FCC database and do his own sorting and tabulating? If so, he hasn't shown his work or allowed visibility into the source code of his sorting-tabulating program. If these numbers are taken from OTHER sources, Jimmie should state that source in order to be accurate. Why is Jimmie HIDING the source of his information? |
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ARS License Numbers
These are the numbers of current, unexpired
amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%) Extra - 78,750 (11.7%) Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%) Total all classes - 674,792 As of November 30, 2005: Novice - 26,885 (4.1%) [decrease of 22,444] Technician - 273,794 (41.4%) [increase of 68,400] Technician Plus - 44,527 (6.7%) [decrease of 84,333] General - 135,094 (20.4%) [increase of 22,417] Advanced - 74,373 (11.2%) [decrease of 25,409] Extra - 107,281 (16.2%) [increase of 28,531] Total Tech/TechPlus - 318,321 (48.1%) [decrease of 15,933] Total all classes - 661,954 (decrease of 12,838) 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. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses are no longer issued. Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Techs in Novice HF - ARS License Numbers
wrote in message oups.com... These are the numbers of current, unexpired amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains: As of May 14, 2000: Novice - 49,329 (7.3%) Technician - 205,394 (30.4%) Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%) General - 112,677 (16.7%) Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%) Extra - 78,750 (11.7%) Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%) Total all classes - 674,792 As of November 30, 2005: Novice - 26,885 (4.1%) [decrease of 22,444] Technician - 273,794 (41.4%) [increase of 68,400] Technician Plus - 44,527 (6.7%) [decrease of 84,333] General - 135,094 (20.4%) [increase of 22,417] Advanced - 74,373 (11.2%) [decrease of 25,409] Extra - 107,281 (16.2%) [increase of 28,531] Total Tech/TechPlus - 318,321 (48.1%) [decrease of 15,933] Total all classes - 661,954 (decrease of 12,838) 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. Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses are no longer issued. Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. The interesting aspect of the renewed Tech+ as simply Techs is that from that 4/15/00 date onward there really is no way for anyone to know if a particular tech operating in the Novice segments of HF is actually authorised to do so since the FCC database doesn't record the prior tech+ status, nor does it reflect if/when a tech may have obtained a 5wpm CSCE certificate after 4/15/00. Cheers, Bill K2UNK |
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Techs in Novice HF - ARS License Numbers
Bill Sohl wrote:
wrote in message oups.com... Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. The interesting aspect of the renewed Tech+ as simply Techs is that from that 4/15/00 date onward there really is no way for anyone to know if a particular tech operating in the Novice segments of HF is actually authorised to do so since the FCC database doesn't record the prior tech+ status, nor does it reflect if/when a tech may have obtained a 5wpm CSCE certificate after 4/15/00. Hmmm - are you sure the database doesn't show the previous license class, Bill? The only HF privileges allowed to Novices and code- tested Techs are Morse Code on parts of 80/40/15/10, and some 10 meter SSB. So if you hear a Tech operating Morse Code, chances are they could pass the test anyway. Which only leaves 10 ssb. If you look at the enforcement letters from FCC, they have gone after Techs for operating HF in excess of their privileges. But such violations have always been obvious, like a Tech operating 20 or 40 meter SSB. I do know that FCC expects Techs who have passed a code test to retain license documents proving that fact. FCC has put some real oddities into the code-tested-Tech rules. For example, if someone can produce a license document from before February 14, 1991 that clearly says "Technician", they get credit for Element 1. If they can produce a license document that clearly says "Novice" or "Technician Plus", they also get credit for Element 1. These rules apply even if the documents are for a license that expired decades ago, and even if the person holds no current license. But a CSCE for Element 1 that is more than 365 days old conveys no test element credit at all. Yet if the person with the expired Element 1 CSCE is a Technician, that person retains their HF privileges. Seems to me that FCC expects that active hams who are Techs should simply get a General or Extra. If the NPRM is enacted, Techs who are not code tested will have to get a General or Extra to get any HF at all. 73 de Jim, N2EY |
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Techs in Novice HF - ARS License Numbers
wrote in message ups.com... Bill Sohl wrote: wrote in message oups.com... Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician. The interesting aspect of the renewed Tech+ as simply Techs is that from that 4/15/00 date onward there really is no way for anyone to know if a particular tech operating in the Novice segments of HF is actually authorised to do so since the FCC database doesn't record the prior tech+ status, nor does it reflect if/when a tech may have obtained a 5wpm CSCE certificate after 4/15/00. Hmmm - are you sure the database doesn't show the previous license class, Bill? The database does show the previous license class. I just looked up my brother, a Tech Plus, who just renewed. The ULS data now shows Tech with the previous license class listed as Tech Plus. However if they passed the Element 1 after 4/15/05, it won't show. [snip] Seems to me that FCC expects that active hams who are Techs should simply get a General or Extra. If the NPRM is enacted, Techs who are not code tested will have to get a General or Extra to get any HF at all. Actually the NPRM clearly states that very thing. And they refer to it as taking a relatively simple written test, or words to that effect, to upgrade to General. As far as I can see, the FCC in all the various historical changes has never wanted people to remain at the introductory license even when the changes were poorly implemented. It has always looked like their goal was to get people to expand their knowledge/skills and move up in license class. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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