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</h1><h1 style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:border-box;font-size:16pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">2018 State of Ham Radio Survey</h1><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Dustin Thomas N8RMA</strong><span> </span>is conducting his second<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">State of Amateur Radio</em>survey<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Once again I'm hosting a "State of the Hobby" survey for 2018.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This started out in 2017 as simple curiosity. While browsing Reddit I began to notice several users posting surveys for highly specific topics. I made sure to participate yet often wondered what the results were.<span> </span><br style="box-sizing:border-box">I then decided to host my own survey, to collect the opinions from the community on topics that I cared about. I wanted to ensure I made the results widely available for anyone to consume for whatever reason, which you can find below.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">2018 Survey:<span> </span><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/WUVZOVbtoNQrpOGz2" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://goo.gl/forms/WUVZOVbtoNQrpOGz2</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">This is the second year I've hosted this survey. Last year I had 688 unique respondents. While this is a good amount of responses, given the amount of amateur radio operators out there, I'm striving to increase this amount each year of the survey. I'm a year older and a year wiser, as such I've listened to user feedback on my survey from last year and attempted to incorporate that constructive feedback moving forward.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Please, help me by completing the survey and passing it on to others who may find it interesting. Thank you!<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">*** Privacy Notice *** I am not affiliated with a company or organization, I am merely an individual conducting a survey for myself and others to learn more about the state of the hobby. Just a guy in Michigan. Any demographic questions are optional and are fairly standard for surveys. No data will be sold or given to anyone - it's to be used by me personally for the survey results only.<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">2017 Survey Results:<span> </span><a href="https://sway.com/dBedey0zHZEjk0Xt" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration:none;word-wrap:break-word">https://sway.com/dBedey0zHZEjk0Xt</a></p>
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