[Boatanchors] Number of amateur radio operators in the United States

[Bob Wilder]

I am confused!! The number I sent was from QRZ.  I used 665,000 Hams and 
296,000,000 to get my
0.224% population are hams.  Must have a typo as am 2 finger typist.  The 
figures I had were 664,905 Hams and 296.676,056 people.


At 10:16 AM 7/21/2005 -0700, Glen Zook wrote:

>The number "quoted" for the amateur radio operator
>population is way too low.  As of 30 June 2005 there
>are the following number of amateur radio operators in
>the United States:
>
>Novice       28,151
>Tech        317,655
>General     136,435
>Advanced     75,812
>Extra       106,852
>
>Total All Classes - 664,905
>
>Glen, K9STH
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