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<H1>Japanese Amateur Radio license statistics</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The March 2010 Japanese Amateur Radio license figures show
a total of 3,299,954 licenses, but this figure should be viewed with
care.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The figures as at March 31, 2010 are:<BR><BR>Class 1 -
26,683<BR>Class 2 - 75,229<BR>Class 3 - 195,122<BR>Class 4 -
3,002,920</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Grand Total 3,299,954</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Japanese Class 4 is the equivalent of the UK Foundation
(USA Tech) and gives access to HF, VHF and UHF with 10 watts output. Introduced
in the late 1950's it was the first HF Amateur Radio license that did not
require any Morse Code test.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Class 3 can be considered equivalent to UK Intermediate
(USA General) and Classes 1 and 2 broadly equate to UK Advanced (USA
Extra).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>All the Amateur Radio operator licenses are Life-Time. A
holder of a Class 1 license can also appear in the statistics of all the lower
classes.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>There is no automatic mechanism to discontinue the license
in the event of an Amateur's death so the figures can be expected to include a
proportion of Silent Key Amateurs.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>As well as an operators license Japanese Amateurs need a
station license to run their own station and there are currently about 450,000
issued. These reportedly cost an initial $120 and then $28 on every 5 yearly
renewal.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Japanese Ministry of Information and Communications
Statistics Database<BR></FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/35cw3rx"
target=_blank><FONT face=Tahoma>http://tinyurl.com/35cw3rx</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Japanese Amateur Radio Frequency bands<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/2_Outline/A-2-2.htm" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.jarl.or.jp/English/2_Outline/A-2-2.htm</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Japan Amateur Radio League, Inc. (JARL) in Google
English<BR></FONT><A href="http://tinyurl.com/JapanJARL" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://tinyurl.com/JapanJARL</FONT></A></P></BODY></HTML>