Comments on: Banner year for Amateur Radio in USA http://blog.rac.ca/?p=947 All about ham radio in Canada - Tous pour la radioamateur au Canada Sun, 12 May 2013 22:59:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Keith Baker, VA3KSF http://blog.rac.ca/?p=947&cpage=1#comment-245 Keith Baker, VA3KSF Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:09:18 +0000 http://racblog.wordpress.com/?p=947#comment-245 Not only is Amateur Radio growing south of the border, but my conversations with the ARRL Volunteer Examiner people at this year's Dayton Hamvention indicated that the vast majority of those 30,000+ "new" licensees who entered our Service in the USA in 2009 were in the "40ish" age bracket rather than the "60ish" age group of our hobby as a whole. To me, this is VERY good news as it indicates we may (finally!) be starting to see a reversal of an increasingly disturbing trend in recent years where the average age of licensees in our Service has been creeping higher and higher. Not only is Amateur Radio growing south of the border, but my conversations with the ARRL Volunteer Examiner people at this year’s Dayton Hamvention indicated that the vast majority of those 30,000+ “new” licensees who entered our Service in the USA in 2009 were in the “40ish” age bracket rather than the “60ish” age group of our hobby as a whole.

To me, this is VERY good news as it indicates we may (finally!) be starting to see a reversal of an increasingly disturbing trend in recent years where the average age of licensees in our Service has been creeping higher and higher.

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