ARLA/CLUSTER: Mais de 18 000 novas licenças nos E.U.A. só no 1º Semestre de 2010.

[João Gonçalves Costa]

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Surge in US Amateur Radio licenses

With more than 18,000 new US Amateur Radio licenses issued in the first half of this year - 18, 270 to be exact - 2010 is shaping up to be a banner year for Amateur Radio, the ARRL reports.

So far, the number of new licenses issued by the FCC in 2010 is outpacing the January-June 2009 totals by almost 8.5 percent; at this time last year, the FCC had issued 16,844 new licenses.

In 2009, a total of 30,144 new licenses were granted, an increase of almost 7.5 percent from 2008. In 2005, 16,368 new hams joined Amateur Radio’s ranks -- just five years later, that number had increased by almost 14,000, a whopping 84 percent! The ARRL VEC is one of 14 VECs who administer Amateur Radio license exams.

Comparing 2010 to 2009, the only month that had higher license totals in 2009 was January: 1960 licenses were issued in January 2009, compared with 1726 in January 2010. Beginning in February, 2010 showed higher new license numbers: 2263 in February 2010 versus 2749 in February 2010; 3463 in March 2009 compared with 3734 in March 2010; 3430 in April 2009 compared with 3508 in April 2010; 2717 in May 2009 compared with 3136 in May 2010, and 3011 in June 2009 versus 3417 in June 2010.



Read the full ARRL article - First Half of 2010 Sees Upswing in New Amateur Radio Licenses
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/first-half-of-2010-sees-upswing-in-new-amateur-radio-licenses
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