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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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