Robert Casey wrote:
Mike Coslo wrote:

Bill Sohl wrote:

From http://ah0a.org/FCC/index.html

Total USA licenses dipped pretty significantly
this month (July). Looks to me like we'll end up July
about 10K below the peak total of 687K some months
back.




November 2006 has a lot of expirations too - around 11,000.


Any idea on what the cause for the surge in licensing at that
time? And I wonder if it was from 1996, or an earlier cycle?

I would have thought that the expirations would have mostly been
Technicians, but the majority are Extras. Interesting.


- Mike KB3EIA -


Wasn't it about 1996 when the FCC stopped issuing a new ten year term
whenever someone had to change their address or such? Today you can
change your address, get an upgrade or such but your expiration date
doesn't change. SO that increase of expirations is likely the amount
of address changes or upgrades that used to get new ten year terms
before. Myself as an example: I upgraded in 2000, but I still expire
in 2006. Back under the old system, I'd expire in 2010.

There being extra extras expiring in 2006 is likely people who
upgraded at around Restructuring Day.


I don't know for sure about the dates, but something like that would
certainly skew the expiring licenses quite a bit, when a different
method starts being used.

- Mike KB3EIA -