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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I find this metric quite interesting for purposes of the ARRL or FEMA, who have embedded interest in increasing the percent of the population with RF communications capabilities. But it strikes me that it's a really broad leap to compare how many contacts you make within a given population to the license density within that population <span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">for the purpose of understanding why you get more Q's from Germany, Spain and Italy</span></span>. While license density matters, it is only one factor in that equation, and like Slovenia, can be entirely over ridden when multiplied by the population of the country.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think the dominant factors would be the percent of global hams in the country (country licenses/global licensees) times a geo-political factor that measures how active hams are in each country (think Germany vs. Korea), times a location dependent propagation factor. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Sorry, sometimes I overthink these things. I like Statistics.....</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Nan</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">NK1A</div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 10:37:24 AM EDT, Tim KC1RET <kc1ret.radio@gmail.com> wrote:
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<font face="Verdana">I was ruminating the other day about the
relative percentage of hams in various countries. I seem to work
A LOT of Italians, Spaniards and Germans. So a quick Google
search led me to Wikipedia. It has a listing of hams by country (
<a href="https://bit.ly/3sI2aeR" class="ydpd01793ayiv1577707962moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bit.ly/3sI2aeR</a> ).<br>
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The Top Ten by % of Population<br>
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<td valign="top"><font face="Verdana">10: United Kingdom: </font></td>
<td valign="top"><font face="Verdana">0.114</font></td>
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<td valign="top"><font face="Verdana">9: New Zealand:</font></td>
<td valign="top">0.120<br>
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<td valign="top">8: Norway: (seriously?)<br>
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<td valign="top">0.125<br>
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<td valign="top">7: Spain:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.127<br>
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<td valign="top">6: Thailand:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.147<br>
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<td valign="top">5: Denmark<br>
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<td valign="top">0.152<br>
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<td valign="top">4: Canada:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.187<br>
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<td valign="top">3: US:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.233<br>
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<td valign="top">2: Japan:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.304<br>
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<td valign="top">1: Slovenia:<br>
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<td valign="top">0.317<br>
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Germany was 15 at 0.073% and Italy 21 at 0.049%.<br>
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Slovenia was a bit of a surprise but it is a small country so a
relatively small population of hams (6,500 as of 2000) can tip the
scale pretty easily. Same with Norway with 6,818 hams as of
2022. US had almost 780,000 as of 2021.<br>
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So we hams are a relative rarity, population wise - approx. 1 in
500 in the US. We are LEET! ( <a href="https://bit.ly/45DwgyC" class="ydpd01793ayiv1577707962moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bit.ly/45DwgyC</a> )<br>
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73,<br>
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T.<br>
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