ARLA/CLUSTER: Numero de radioamadores nos E.U.A. continua a aumentar

José Machado ct1bat gmail.com
Domingo, 12 de Janeiro de 2014 - 19:03:15 WET


É curioso verificar que, em dois países (EUA e Reino Unido) onde há um elevado grau de exigência no acesso ao radioamadorismo, o número de radioamadores continua a crescer e de uma forma exponencial. 
No caso dos EUA é, precisamente, a classe de acesso, a Técnica,  que registou o maior aumento, de 7%! Acede-se a esta classe por passagem num exame de 35 questões sobre teoria de rádio, regulamentação e práticas operacionais para ter acesso às frequências acima de 30 MHz permitindo, apenas, comunicações locais (não há decamétricas).
Segundo a ARRL, igual panorama se regista na Austrália, com um crescimento de 1,3% em 2010 (+15.626), em Espanha 1,4% (+30.468 em 2012) e no Japão +1% (cerca de 99.000!)
Já no Reino Unido que, também, tem 3 categorias: Foundation (10W em VHF), Intermediate e Advanced. O crescimento, segundo a OfCom, ronda os 4% em 2011.
Igualmente curioso é que os nossos amigos ingleses "detestam" a Foundation e a Intermediate (as nossas categorias 3 e 2!) . Apenas 1 em cada 5 estão na categoria inicial e na Intermediária só "ficam" 1 em cada 10! 
Que diferentes que somos...
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José Machado - CT1BAT

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De: cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net [mailto:cluster-bounces  radio-amador.net] Em nome de João Costa > CT1FBF
Enviada: 12 de janeiro de 2014 16:45
Para: Cluster-ARLA
Assunto: ARLA/CLUSTER: Numero de radioamadores nos E.U.A. continua a aumentar

Ham Radio growth in the US

The ARRL report the number of amateur radio licenses in the USA is continuing to grow. They note the situation in other countries and make a misleading comment about the UK

The USA has three license exams Technician, General and Extra. These are equivalent to the UK Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced exams.
It is worth noting that even holders of the US Foundation equivalent the Technician are allowed to run 1500 watts output in contrast to the
10 watts the UK Foundation holder is allowed.

The USA used to have a two other license classes the Novice and the Advanced license. The Novice license was designed to provide an introduction to the hobby and permitted 200 watts output on HF. The exam requirements were set at a level that enabled four year old children to pass. The Novice license stopped being issued in 2000, today slightly more than 13,000 people still have a Novice license.

The Advanced license required a Morse test of 13 WPM as against the 20 WPM of the Extra class. When the 13 WPM and 20 WPM Morse tests were scrapped in 2000 in favor of a single 5 WPM test Advanced licenses were no longer issued. Today there are 54,293 Advanced licenses remaining.

The number of USA amateur licenses are:
Extra and Advanced 187,684
General 167,257
Technician 349,163

The ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, says that a significant number of Technician licensees were earned through large emergency communication and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) classes.

The ARRL notes the dramatic slump in the number of Japanese amateur station licenses in recent years but the article gives a rather misleading impression of the situation in the UK.

They say "In the United Kingdom, 76,362 licensees were on record as of March 2012 — up by 3.9 percent over 2011 — and growth was consistent."
which paints a completely false picture of the situation. The reality is that the number of UK radio amateurs has fallen by 47% over the past 7 years.

The UK licenses should be renewed (revalidated) every 5 years but the regulator Ofcom recently admitted that 47% of the licenses reported in their monthly statistics had not been renewed. The license statistics still include people who died or gave up the hobby 7 years ago.

It must also be remembered that in the UK there is double or triple counting of licenses. When people upgrade from Foundation to Intermediate and Full (Advanced) their previous licenses remain in the figures. In addition a significant number of amateurs hold two Full
(Advanced) licenses as a result of the old Class A / Class B license structure.

Read the ARRL article at
http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-showing-steady-growth-
in-the-us

Ofcom UK Amateur Radio Licence Statistics http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radiocommunication-licences/
amateur-radio/guidance-for-licensees/monthly-stats/

How to validate your licence
http://www.essexham.co.uk/news/remember-to-validate-your-licence.html

Are UK amateur radio licences really on the increase?
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/september2013/
are_uk_amateur_radio_licences_really_on_the_increase.htm



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