[UK-CONTEST] Activity

Fri Aug 31 08:12:17 EDT 2012

You are right Dave, Probably a comparative measure of activity is the number
of spots for call groups or RBN figures.
I know that's not ideal for a number of reasons, but it would show whether
the numbers active over the past few years has increased. Or has it just
flat lined. 73 Clive GM3POI 

-----Original Message-----
From: UK-Contest [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Dave Sergeant
Sent: 31 August 2012 11:12
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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