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February 11th 04, 01:51 PM
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On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:30:43 GMT, "Dee D. Flint"
wrote: "Leo" wrote in message .. . On 11 Feb 2004 00:00:18 GMT, (N2EY) wrote: In article , Leo writes: Except for Japanese 4th class licensees, how many hams are there in the rest of the planet? Well, my trusty EuroCall 2003 CD lists 276,446 callsigns in Europe alone - even if a couple of guys died, there's probably more than that now. I don't have figures for Asia, Africa, Oceania or the rest of the Americas (except that there's around 56,000 or so up here...). Quite a few, anyway! DX wouldn't be the same without 'em.....  Excluding Japan, the last time I checked the Radio Amateur Call book listed about 600,000+ for the combined rest of the world. Roughly equal to the number of US Amateurs. Sounds about right. (Japan has 1,000,000 hams? That explains the number of Japanese amateur products out there - they built their own user base for 'em!). However, voting rights in the ITU, CCITT or other global entities aren't weighted entirely upon the number of licensees or service users that each country has. If they were, the US could control the ITU like a corporation - claim a 51% user share and set global amateur policy on their own votes alone. Fortunately, it doesn't work that way  Agreed that the US is obviously a major player - but I'm sure that even if they had gone their own way, the rest of the world would not necessarily follow. The role of agencies like the ITU is to coordinate global resources so as to prevent chaos on the bands - not to act as an agent of US policy. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE 73, Leo |
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