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

[Stewart Bryant]

Whether this is good or band depends.

If arguing for spectrum on the basis of lots of licenses such error
work in out favor.

Stewart/G3YSX

On 31/08/2012 17:36, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> But you must also take into account the new lifetime licence introduced
> around 2007. In the past those who lost interest or became silent key
> would not renew the following year, so there was a natural 'churn'
> rate. Nowadays a licence remains valid for five years, and unless those
> people (or their families) take steps to actually cancel their licence
> it will remain on the database until it drops out after that five
> years. I imagine there is very much more dead wood there than there
> used to be under the old licence regime and the 2-3k increase per year
> pretty well matches just new licences issued with no churn.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 31 Aug 2012 at 17:07, G0RPM wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
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