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Well let's look at some numbers shall we....
The following are the Numbers of people entering the amateur radio service: DATE TOTAL -------------------------------------- 12/04/04 671,837 01/02/05 667,562 down by 4,275 01/09/05 668,051 up by 489 01/16/05 668,750 up by 735 TOTAL STILL DOWN 3,015 The bottom line numbers really don't lie...people can say amateur radio is on the rise but the actually truth is the number of people getting in the service is still down from the previous month Todd "Bathrooman" wrote in message ups.com... For more than 50 years, some hams have been yelling "Ham Radio is Dying!" "Ham Radio is Dying!" They came up with all kinds of bright ideas. Incentive licensing...school clubs...extra-easy study guides...dumbing down the licensing tests...no code licenses...on and on. Why do some hams believe ham radio is dying? They are bored with the hobby themselves! They put together some equipment, strung up antennas, exchanged signal and weather reports, chased certificates, collected QSL cards and after a few years or more of this they ask: "Is this all there is?" Bah Humbug...yup that's about all it is. So what? What more do you want it to be? ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"Todd Daugherty" wrote in message ... Well let's look at some numbers shall we.... The following are the Numbers of people entering the amateur radio service: DATE TOTAL -------------------------------------- 12/04/04 671,837 01/02/05 667,562 down by 4,275 01/09/05 668,051 up by 489 01/16/05 668,750 up by 735 TOTAL STILL DOWN 3,015 The bottom line numbers really don't lie...people can say amateur radio is on the rise but the actually truth is the number of people getting in the service is still down from the previous month Todd And as any competent statistician can tell you, a variation over this short time frame for this type of data is not likely to be significant. You have to look at longer term data. In addition, changes of less than 1% are seldom signficant. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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