I won't give out my exact life member number, but rounded to hundreds is
2200. It was issued in 1997.
Wow, not sure how many are officially declared deceased. 2200/3176 is a
pretty high percentage.
73,
Bill
NJ1H
On 9/18/2012 2:51 PM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
There was an interesting article in QST a few months ago about the
number of Hams in the US. They mentioned some of the difficulties in
determining that number. It is easy to count licenses but of those
licensed how many are actually active. One thing that could throw off
the AMSAT numbers is life members. I am guessing that ballots are sent
to everyone. My life member number is 875 which was issued in 1978. I
imagine that there are many more life members today but even if mine
was the last one issued 27% of the 3176 could be life members. Just
because you are a life member that does not mean you are active or
even remotely interested.
I found it very difficult to determine who to vote for. My first step
was to send an email to all the candidates. Only two of them even
bothered to reply - that pretty much eliminated the rest. Next step
was to vote for people I actually heard on the satellites. I kept a
little list in the shack and checked off names as I heard them. When
it came time to vote there was only one person on that list or in my
log but they had previously replied to my initial email so were
already in. I then decided to vote for people who said something
meaningful in their bio. There was only one but they were already on
my list. I then decided to vote for the youngest person but ages were
not listed. My fall back criteria when all else fails is to vote for
the cutest woman but for obvious reasons that was not possible. All in
all I think a 22% return rate is pretty good and certainly not worth
worrying about.
73 W9KE Tom Doyle
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Alan P. Biddle <apbid...@united.net> wrote:
So with 700 ballots received, we got a return rate of 22%.
73s,
Alan
WA4SCA
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This year, 3176 ballots were mailed.
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