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In any event, at least the steady decline in the ARS license numbers
since 2003 or so seems to have stopped.

73 de Jim, N2EY


Yet that could also be attributable to other factors. There is insufficient
correlation to attribute it to the change in licensing. For example we are
now probably close to the end of shaking out those who got licensed as whole
families in the 1990s for family communications around town. While some
developed further interest in amateur radio, there were quite a few who have
let their licenses lapse as they went to cell phones or otherwise had no
further need of that type of communication.

Dee, N8UZE