Conspiracy or just bad methods of record keeping?

.... in the end the reason is not as important as facts, and one fact
is--dead hams are on the books...

But damn it all and get real, the USA population is 350,000,000+, if just
one percent of that population were hams, you would need 3.5 millons hams...

.... the figure 600,000 is too ridiculous to even argue as meaningful, stop
eating lotus flowers, wake up!

John

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 10:24:49 -0400, Michael Coslo wrote:



Dave Heil wrote:

John Smith wrote:

Dee:

I differ with that figure, I think it is inflated about half, this is
VERY apparent when tuning the bands... something is OBVIOUSLY wrong with
that figure. I suspect it is like our "unemployment figure" here in the
USA, that ONLY depicts those who are "drawing" unemployment, not those
who
have used up their unemployment, only worked part time and are not
eligible, those who have given up on looking for work, etc...
Those figures are "cooked" and those in the know--KNOW IT!

John


You purport to be an active radio amateur and you didn't even have a
realistic idea of how many hams there are in the United States? Do you
think the FCC and ARRL are in collusion and they've whipped up some
massive coverup of the number of licensees? Sheesh!


It is a conspiracy, Dave. The FCC is inflating the numbers of Hams for
some reason, even though the conspiracists on the other side think they
would like there to be *fewer* Hams, so that the FCC can have a good
excuse to take away our band segments.

Make sense? No? I think its related to Chemtrails somehow...... ;^)


Finally, do some of these folks have some trouble with their antennas
or something? When I tune our bands, I hear a *lot* of activity. And it
isn't just on contest weekends. On those weekends the bands are wall to
wall. Only open spots are around the Maritime nets, and it is wise to
leave them some space.

- Mike KB3EIA -