[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 43

[G0JKZ]

I would concur with Dave... in the old days when we went from B to A we
lapsed the licence... nowdays, anyone who gets from F- I - A holds 3
Licences. In reality, I bet the number of individual s with licences is only
60% of the claimed figure.

George
G0JKZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Sergeant [mailto:dave at davesergeant.com]
> Sent: 31 August 2012 12:12
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 43
> 
> Those figures of course are for LICENCES not individuals. In recent years
the
> practice of holding several calls, eg Foundation/Intermediate/Foundation
has
> grown. It also includes club calls, again many with multiple calls.
Foundation
> numbers in particular have grown, but we see very few of those in contests
> (or in quite a lot of cases nowhere else, they get their ticket and
disappear).
> 
> What would be useful would be the number of individual licence holders,
> and the number of those actually active on the bands, information that is
> probably not available.
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> On 31 Aug 2012 at 11:49, Steve White wrote:
> 
> > I don't dispute the fact that the average age of licensed amateurs is
> > increasing and that RSGB membership has declined (I don't have the
> > figures for membership), but you are wrong on the licensing figures.
> > For everyone's information, here are the approximate figures (taken
> > from page 5 of the RSGB Yearbook).
> >
> > 2007: 63500
> > 2008: 66800
> > 2009: 69900
> > 2010: 72500
> > 2011: 75900
> > 2012: 78400 (23% more than 2007)
> >
> 
> 
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