ARLA/CLUSTER: Nunca existiram tantos radioamadores americanos como actualmente

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

US Ham Radio numbers reach all-time high

The ARRL report Amateur Radio growth in the US continues to soar.
At the end of 2014, the total number of radio amateurs in the FCC’s
Universal Licensing System (ULS) database reached an all-time high of
726,725

The trend has continued in the first 2 months of 2015, which saw the
ham population rise to slightly more than 727,000.

Outside of a little dithering last fall, growth in the Amateur Radio
Service in 2014 was steady, according to figures compiled by Joe
Speroni, AH0A, on his FCC Amateur Radio Statistics web pages.
http://www.ah0a.org/FCC/index.html

Read the ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/us-amateur-radio-numbers-reach-an-all-time-high

Just under half of all US licensees hold the Technician class licence
which can be considered equivalent to the UK Foundation license.
The Technician class was originally introduced in 1951 and today
permits holders to operate 200 watts output on four HF bands and up to
1500 watts output on all VHF, UHF and Microwave bands.