[CQ-Contest] RM11708 and the Future

[Tom Frenaye]

At 09:28 AM 8/25/2016, Stan Stockton/K5GO  wrote:
>How many people with licenses have ham radio on their mind more than a couple hours per week?  Used to be one in a thousand were hams. 

The last time the ratio of USA hams to the general population was over 1 in 1000 was 1955 (and earlier).   Since then it dropped to as low as 1 in 374 in 1996, 
then went up to 1 in 459 in 2007, and has dropped slowly since then and is 1 in 438 today.    How many are really active on the air, experimenting or building things 
is another story.

    -- Tom


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