> If you assume the average age of license is 15, contesting will
> slowly die due to lack of participation, starting in about 20 years.
> It's really amazing how few of the total were licensed since 1980...
> --
> Barry Kutner, W2UP Internet: w2up@itw.com
Well, not exactly...there are a goodly number of the people that are still
to get interested in contesting that don't show up in the histogram. They
will make the late-80's/90's 'tail' grow in size by a sizable factor over
the next cycle's worth of good propagation.
Has anyone ever done a comparative study of check distribution in the
50's, 60's, 70's, 80's? It would be real interesting to see how the
demographics change over time. (Maybe after contest season...whenever that
is...)
73, Ward N0AX
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