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Forummaster
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Username: Forummaster
Post Number: 576
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Monday, September 30, 2013 - 7:04 pm: | 
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Radio Days Are Back: Ham Radio Licenses at an All-Time High
The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication: Ham radio licenses are at an all time high, with over 700,000 licenses in the United States, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Ham radio first took the nation by storm nearly a hundred years ago. Last month the FCC logged 700,314 licenses, with nearly 40,000 new ones in the last five years. Compare that with 2005 when only 662,600 people hammed it up and you'll see why the American Radio Relay League -- the authority on all things ham -- is calling it a "golden age."
"Over the last five years we've had 20-25,000 new hams a year," Allen Pitts, a spokesman for the group, told FoxNews.com.
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Forummaster
CEF001
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Milkman21218
Advanced Member
Username: Milkman21218
Post Number: 553
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 12:49 am: |
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Thanks to the Copper Electronics Forum along with Lon I am a Ham radio operator today.
Izzy
CEF#502
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Tech237
Moderator
Username: Tech237
Post Number: 1701
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, October 01, 2013 - 6:09 pm: |
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Of course it's "GOlden". The only easier way of getting a license for this "technical" hobby, would be to give it away with Cereals.
Is quantity really better than quality?? to be honest do we really have either today??
How many of those licenses are actually active?? My ex if licensed and has not been active in over 5 years.
Tech237
N7AUS
God made me an athiest, who are you to question his wisdom?
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Revpo
Advanced Member
Username: Revpo
Post Number: 654
Registered: 7-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - 8:45 am: |
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I saw someplace less than 50 percent were active.
REVPO
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REVPO/DOCTOR/CEF 795
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