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In November 2005, I took a look at some statistics on FCC amateur radio licenses. At that time, I compared the number of ham licenses to such things as the US population, number of cell phones in use and the number of birdwatchers in the US. Interesting stuff. Ten years later, we can take a ... Read morehttp://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/fcc-1.gif