[UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 44

[G0RPM]

Sorry for butting in but...

When considering whether the numbers of licensed amateurs are growing or
declining, surely it's more important to compare the numbers year on year?
The fact that the absolute numbers include SKs and "extra" callsigns is that
important, because this will be the case in each of the last few years.
Therefore, the numbers do look to me as if they are improving.

I am a member to 3 different clubs and whilst two are declining in
membership - dieing or dying as you wish ;-), the third's membership is
increasing regularly as members invest the time and effort in running all
levels of licensing course.

73

Nigel, G0RPM



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From: UK-Contest [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Steve White
Sent: 31 August 2012 13:59
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 44

A look through the surname index of the Yearbook will give a good idea (as 
opposed to the absolute number) of how many people hold multiple UK 
licences. I just looked at one column of one random page (2012 edition, 
starting surname Poole). Its easy to spot a surname followed by the same 
initials, and certainly there are a few, but not a huge number. Anyone who 
thinks that the number of licensed individuals is only 60% of the total must

be well wide of the mark, but I'm prepared to be proved wrong(!), so I 
hereby invite anyone who reads this message to conduct a search of a random 
Yearbook page (avoiding surnames such as Smith, where there are likely to be

numerous people with the same initials) and let us know how many people in 
one column look like they have multiple licences. Please tell us also how 
many entries there were in the column that you chose, so we can work out the

approximate percentage.

73

Steve, G3ZVW


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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:11:35 +0100
From: "Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 43
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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)
>


http://www.davesergeant.com



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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:48:47 +0100
From: "G0JKZ" <g0jkz at terminalcomputers.com>
To: "'Dave Sergeant'" <dave at davesergeant.com>,
<uk-contest at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] UK-Contest Digest, Vol 116, Issue 43
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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

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