Amateur License Statistics: Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2007 Extra: 108,271 to 111,716 General: 131,558 to 142,180
Advanced, Technician, and Novice are falling as would be expected due to die-offs, upgrades, and don't cares. And you said: "Which makes this an issue for Amateur Radio specifically, not just AM. More, as well as restrictive regulations have the real likelihood of impacting all amateurs in a negative way." I'm not sure that's true, but maybe the future action should be for amateurs to provide them with enough intelligent and solid information for them to do it the correct way. See you on the channel where chaos is the norm especially when the hot topic is "what's for dinner". Pete, wa2cwa On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:51:10 -0500 "Todd, KA1KAQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 13, 2007 9:34 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? Because they've been there forever, had their net there since > radio was invented, AM Window reserved for AMers only, and similar > nonsense. We're losing licenesees faster than we are gaining them > last > time I checked. With a given percentage of people inactive, and > fewer > joining the ranks than leaving, where is the crisis the League > sees? > Beyond coming up with a working plan to coexist with digital > transmissions, that is? > > So yes, it does appear they have tried to create a problem to > solve, > basically. And we're clear that, despite words by a few saying they > wouldn't support such a thing, the ARRL has indeed pushed for > regulation by bandwidth, in the very recent past. > > Which makes this an issue for Amateur Radio specifically, not just > AM. > More, as well as restrictive regulations have the real likelihood > of > impacting all amateurs in a negative way. > > ~ Todd, KA1KAQ ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.html Post: mailto:[email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
