Re: [amsat-bb] Re:Number of hams worldwide?

["John B. Stephensen" <kd6ozh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Since 3/4 of the world's population can't afford it, that means 1 in 1000 people
that could be hams are.

73,

John
KD6OZH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark L. Hammond" <mlhammond@charter.net>
To: <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Saturday, 30 October, 2004 20:57 UTC
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Re:Number of hams worldwide?


> Using a 6.4B world population number, that suggests that about 0.027% of the
world's population are hams.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark N8MH
>
>
> At 02:48 PM 10/30/2004 -0400, DOBarrows@aol.com wrote:
> >Hamcall says over 1,759,000 listings are in their database.  They
> >also have a breakdown by prefix in their web pages, although
> >it is a little cryptic.
> >Dave W8IJ
> >Camp Hill, PA
> >>Does anyone know where I can find how many hams there are world-wide or
> >>by country?  I was doing a AMSAT presentation today to a group of
> >>non-hams, and was asked during my intro about "What amateur radio is."
> >
> >
> >>-Freeman
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> Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
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