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WW5F

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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1245 on: February 16, 2023, 08:16:35 AM »

N2EY - So, you're saying we have an inactive or unresponsive FCC either incapable of or refusing to take care of basic tasks for their customers?  As long as they continue to get their paychecks and the fewest number of people are complaining... The ham radio system's not crashing today, so why put any effort into it?  Ok, now this makes sense to me.

Another thing I might add.  If you're aware of what's going on in the commerce committee hearings in the last few days with the current nominee for FCC Commissioner (Gigi Sohn), you can tell no one at the FCC even remotely cares about ham radio these days.  Gigi is a model example of the current state of our culture these days.

AI5BC - yes, I know.
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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1246 on: February 18, 2023, 01:10:46 PM »

So, you're saying we have an inactive or unresponsive FCC either incapable of or refusing to take care of basic tasks for their customers?

I'd phrase it differently.

The amateur community is "easy", and the number of "annoyed" hams (who would make big stink) are comparatively few. And when they do "make a stink," they do it on eHam, QRZ, or some similar forum where only other hams see it. They don't complain to their Representatives or Senators very often, or make a big deal in the general press. And the general press doesn't follow amateur radio very much, unless it's Field Day (and clubs want to earn the 100 bonus points for a press release and coverage) or there is some heroic rescue that could only have been enabled by ham radio (not that it was simply used).

So the squeaky wheel gets the grease, whether it's SpaceX (for Starlink) who seems to be the "hot ticket" now, or the recently-incessant "political" complaints about Internet censoring (from both sides) aka the section 230 debate, or all the folks complaining about their cellular coverage by AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile/whoever.
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WW5F

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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1247 on: February 18, 2023, 06:42:46 PM »

W3HF - So, you're saying I need to coordinate a "million-man march" in front of the main FCC office building in Washington DC, break some windows, flip some police cars and set them of fire, spray paint some nasty graffiti on their walls, scream things like "fix your database now" over and over again in order to make it on the CBS evening news in order for the FCC to take notice and actually do something that's so obviously basic that they finally do it?

I think I know what the problem actually is.  If they can't get the little things right, how can I expect them to get the big things right?
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N2EY

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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1248 on: February 19, 2023, 05:35:23 AM »

W3HF - So, you're saying I need to coordinate a "million-man march" in front of the main FCC office building in Washington DC, break some windows, flip some police cars and set them of fire, spray paint some nasty graffiti on their walls, scream things like "fix your database now" over and over again in order to make it on the CBS evening news in order for the FCC to take notice and actually do something that's so obviously basic that they finally do it?

None of what you describe actually happened during the "Million Man March". Nor during the Women's March on January 21, 2017.

January 6, 2021 was a different story, though.

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I think I know what the problem actually is.

Tell us.

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If they can't get the little things right, how can I expect them to get the big things right?

FCC didn't want to charge us fees. They were forced to do so by the Ray Baum Act. FCC doesn't get the money, the Treasury does.

What incentive does FCC have to make the process easy?
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WW5F

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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1249 on: February 19, 2023, 06:17:46 AM »

What incentive does FCC have to make the process easy?

Exactly.
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N2EY

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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1250 on: February 21, 2023, 02:27:30 PM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on February 19, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,223      (0.8%)
Technician            385,601     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,185     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,215       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,396     (20.1%)

Total                    766,670

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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« Reply #1251 on: February 27, 2023, 09:20:58 AM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on February 25, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,217      (0.8%)
Technician            385,273     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,283     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,175       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,489     (20.1%)

Total                    766,437

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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« Reply #1252 on: February 28, 2023, 08:23:31 AM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on February 27, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,215      (0.8%)
Technician            385,094     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,317     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,174       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,519     (20.1%)

Total                    766,319

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1253 on: March 02, 2023, 10:20:21 AM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 1, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,214      (0.8%)
Technician            385,159     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,309     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,149       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,514     (20.1%)

Total                    766,345

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1254 on: March 03, 2023, 09:27:55 AM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 2, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,214      (0.8%)
Technician            385,133     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,351     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,146       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,551     (20.1%)

Total                    766,395

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1255 on: March 08, 2023, 06:51:33 PM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 7, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,212      (0.8%)
Technician            384,812     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,373     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,146       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,623     (20.1%)

Total                    766,166

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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« Reply #1256 on: March 15, 2023, 01:10:49 PM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 14, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,207      (0.8%)
Technician            384,435     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,389     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,115       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,689     (20.1%)

Total                    765,835

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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AA4HA

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Re: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1257 on: March 16, 2023, 08:36:25 AM »

It is interesting to note that extra class license holders continue to have modest increases and general class license counts are fairly flat.

The decreases seem to be driven by losses in the technician-class licenses; Following many of the discussions here and on the /reddit forums there continues to be a great deal of frustration from techs who have VHF/UHF privileges. As if they joined the hobby and discovered that it was more difficult than expected, there was nobody to talk to (who had the same interests) or the prepper/SHTF zombie apocalypse just did not materialize.

So many of the simplest questions they ask in the forums are for things that they should have easily mastered to take any part of the math sections on the US exams.

I do not know if the amateur radio community has failed them, or they thought that it would be entirely plug-and-play, appliance-operator skills level. Maybe they would be better off with FRS radios for their day trips to a state park with their kids. The ubiquity of cellphones and apps must make amateur radio seem archaic and of limited usefulness.
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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1258 on: March 19, 2023, 09:27:03 AM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 17, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,189      (0.8%)
Technician            384,277     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,397     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,071       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,662     (20.1%)

Total                    765,596

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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N2EY

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Re: RE: FCC License Counts
« Reply #1259 on: March 20, 2023, 01:52:43 PM »

From http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts,

the number of current unexpired FCC issued amateur licenses held by individuals on March 18, 2023 was:

Novice:                    6,189      (0.8%)
Technician            384,267     (50.3%)
Technician Plus               0       (0.0%)
General                186,390     (24.3%)
Advanced               34,073       (4.5%)
Extra                    154,659     (20.1%)

Total                    765,578

Percentages may not add up to exactly 100.0% due to rounding.

No new Novice or Advanced licenses have been issued since April 2000. However, the totals for those classes may sometimes show an increase over prior numbers due to renewals in the grace period.

This is not a new all-time high. It is provided to avoid a large gap in the timeline.

The all-time high total of 780,526 occurred November 24, 2021

73 de Jim, N2EY
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