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Mike Coslo wrote: wrote: From: on 10 May 2005 09:11:19 -0700 Yes Sweetums, a lousy 0.7% drop in total membership in 8.5 years is not a dramatic anything. In fact it indicates a rather comfortable level of stability so all is well in Newington. Has ARRL membership EVER gotten as high as a quarter of all licensed U.S. amateurs? On "8.5 years is not a dramatic anything," that's a rather gross fluff-off, "sweetums." Agreed. But my math says the drop is more like almost 13%. Sources are the ARRL annual reports at: http://www2.remote.arrl.org/announce/annualreport/ 1997 (highest membership) 177,396 2003 (last year I have an annual report for) 154,545 22,851 members were lost in that time. Wouldn't a .7 % drop be more like 1242 members leaving? Hard to say that that sort of drop isn't dramatic! - Mike KB3EIA - Apologies for being repetitious here but sometimes that's what it takes .. . When I asked Sumner for the by-class breakdown he wrote that the last available data he has is from August *1996* as reported in the February 1997 issue of QST. Extras 38,852 Advanced 39,430 General 25,245 Tech Plus 22,634 Tech 24,021 Novice 2,627 Total members Aug. 1996 = 152,809 If you have a problem with this don't bore me with it, take it up with Sumner. w3rv |
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