On Jul 30, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Les Rayburn wrote:
> At one point, she asked an obvious question. "Didn't you tell me
> that there were only a couple of guys around here who roved at all?"
> Why do you care?
Your wife's thought got me to playing with numbers...
U.S. Population (July 2007): 301,139,947
Licensed Hams in the U.S.: 722,330 (2007)
Licensed Pilots in the U.S.: 597,109 (end of 2006 - includes students,
recreational, sport, private, commercial and airline transport pilots).
Hams comprise 0.24% of the U.S. population.
Pilots comprise 0.20% of the U.S. population.
(Just for an interesting comparison.)
ARRL Members: 154,000 (best number found on their website).
21.32% of licensed hams are ARRL members.
June ARRL VHF Contest: 967 logs submitted.
1.95922196931e-05 % of the U.S. Population
0.14 % of licensed hams in the U.S.
0.63 % of the ARRL membership.
100% of the log-submitting contest participants.
Roughly 20 people in every State participated seriously enough in the
June VHF contest to submit a log.*
June ARRL VHF Contest Rovers: 59
1.99242912133e-05 % of the U.S. Population
8.16801185054e-03 % of the licensed hams in the U.S.
3.83116883117e-02 % of the ARRL membership.
6.10% of the log-submitting contest participants were rovers.
Roughly 2 people in every State* are rovers that participate seriously
enough in the June VHF contest to submit a log* (If you round up by
quite a bit this year. The real number is approximately 1.2 people
per State. We were closer to 2 per State last year, but still below.)
American Heritage Dictionary -
en·dan·gered species (ěn-dān'jərd)
n. A species present in such small numbers that it is at risk of
extinction.
* Yes, I'm aware the contest isn't just the U.S. -- it's easier to do
the numbers this way, and if you count the Canadian and Mexican hams
into the overall totals just to add in North America, and forget the
Caribbean, Europe, whoever else folks might work -- these numbers look
even smaller.
--
Nate Duehr, WY0X
nate@natetech.com
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