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Hi Tim,<div><br></div><div>I went through and counted only the ones that hadn’t expired yet. <br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 11:34 AM, Tim KC1RET <kc1ret.radio@gmail.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv9956889726"><div>
    Active or licensed?  Those numbers, sadly, can
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    <div class="yiv9956889726moz-cite-prefix">On 05-Sep-23 11:17, Kristie Connolly
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      <div>That’s so cool. I have been looking for that information. I
        seem to work Brazil a fair amount.  It has mostly been the
        countries that you listed though. </div>
      <div>I just went through a website that has over 60 active Ham
        radio operators in Bedford, MA. </div>
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        <p style="font-size:15px;color:#715FFA;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0;" class="yiv9956889726yahoo-quoted-begin">On Tuesday,
          September 5, 2023, 10:37 AM, Tim KC1RET
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            <div> 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 shape="rect" href="https://bit.ly/3sI2aeR" class="yiv9956889726moz-txt-link-freetext yiv9956889726moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bit.ly/3sI2aeR</a>
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              The Top Ten by % of Population<br clear="none">
              <table width="33%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">10: United Kingdom: </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.114</td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">9: New Zealand:</td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.120<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">8: Norway: (seriously?)<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.125<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">7: Spain:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.127<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">6: Thailand:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.147<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">5: Denmark<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.152<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">4: Canada:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.187<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">3: US:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.233<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">2: Japan:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.304<br clear="none">
                    </td></tr><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">1: Slovenia:<br clear="none">
                    </td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top">0.317<br clear="none">
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              Germany was 15 at 0.073% and Italy 21 at 0.049%.<br clear="none">
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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 clear="none">
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              So we hams are a relative rarity, population wise -
              approx. 1 in 500 in the US.  We are LEET! ( <a shape="rect" href="https://bit.ly/45DwgyC" class="yiv9956889726moz-txt-link-freetext yiv9956889726moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://bit.ly/45DwgyC</a>
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