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[N2EY at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/14/07 8:29:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, w6vy at yahoo.com 
writes:


> Actually in the US in 1962 (the year I was licensed) there were
> over 250,000 hams in the US.  The callbook I saved to show my
> first call was the summer 1963 and it lists 258,000 hams.
> 

Is that 258,000 operator licenses or 258,000 station licenses? Just curious.

In those days, there were considerably more amateur station licenses than 
operator licenses, because there were a more than a few club, military, RACES, 
and second-station licenses. When amateur repeaters became popular (about a 
decade later), the difference swelled even more.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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