news:1159867822.860905.174320@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
These are the numbers of current, unexpired amateur radio licenses held by individuals on the stated dates, and the percentage of the total number of active licenses that class contains:
As of May 14, 2000:
Novice - 49,329 (7.3%)
Technician - 205,394 (30.4%)
Technician Plus - 128,860 (19.1%)
General - 112,677 (16.7%)
Advanced - 99,782 (14.8%)
Extra - 78,750 (11.7%)
Total Tech/TechPlus - 334,254 (49.5%)
Total General/Advanced/Extra - 291,209 (43.2%)
Total all classes - 674,792
As of October 1, 2006:
Novice - 24,304 (3.7%) [decrease of 25,025]
Technician - 285,709 (43.5%) [increase of 80,315]
Technician Plus - 35,378 (5.4%) [decrease of 93,482]
General - 131,945 (20.1%) [increase of 19,268]
Advanced - 70,756 (10.8%) [decrease of 29,026]
Extra - 108,389 (16.5%) [increase of 29,639]
(percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding)
Total Tech/TechPlus - 321,087 (48.9%) [decrease of 13,167]
Total General/Advanced/Extra - 311,090 (47.4%) [increase of 19,881]
Total all classes - 656,481 (decrease of 18,311)
Note that these totals do not include licenses that have expired but are in the grace period.
They also do not include club, military, RACES or other station-only licenses.
Note also that effective April 15, 2000, new Novice, Technician Plus and Advanced licenses
are no longer issued.
Since April 15, 2000, FCC has renewed all existing Technician Plus licenses as Technician. It is therefore informative to consider the totals of the two classes, since the Technician class includes a significant number of Technician Plus licenses renewed as Technician.
73 de Jim, N2EY
Thanks Jim.
Maybe now everyone will see that dumbing things down was bad for ham radio.