ARLA/CLUSTER: Em 2018, o numero de radioamadores continua a declinar em França

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Fewer French radio hams in 2018

The Passion Radio site reports the decline in the number of French
radio amateurs continues, in 2018 the total fell to just 13,126

The French Entry-Level (F0) license, requiring just a short 20
question 15-minute rules/regs exam with a 98% pass rate, was scrapped
in 2012 leaving only a single HAREC compatible license class.

The French HAREC license requires passing a single 40 question
45-minute exam. 2018 saw a 62% pass rate for the HAREC with 150 people
successfully passing the exam.

While the number of individual amateur licenses continues to declines
the number of callsigns allocated to Clubs and Repeaters is rising. As
the amateur population is declining this suggests there are more clubs
with smaller memberships and VHF/UHF activity is spread out more
thinly across more repeaters FM/C4FM/DMR/D-Star?

Read the report with graphs published on Passion Radio at
https://tinyurl.com/France-AR-Statistics-2018

Passion Radio in Google English
https://tinyurl.com/France-Passion-Radio