Overview

Data and code for analysis at https://mastodon.radio/@W1CDN/111723969200676208.

I’ll get a blog post up at https://w1cdn.net at some point.

This is a work in progress. It is not intended to be immediately useful for detailed analysis, but to act as a guide for further investigation. As we figure out how to slice up and caveat data, it will get more organized.

Resources (not all integrated yet)

• Various items in the issue queue
• Post from KE9V that started this: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jdavis/111720350879036543
  • Blog post: https://ke9v.net/2024/01/08/fading-away.html
• ARRL stats on the Internet Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905095114/http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts
• AH0A data from FCC
  • Total stats: http://ah0a.org/FCC/Licenses.html
  • Main page: http://ah0a.org/FCC/index.html
• FCC numbers as images of tables: https://sites.google.com/site/amateurradiodata/home
• K8VSY’s per capita estimates: https://k8vsy.radio/2021/09/ham-radio-licenses-us-states-per-capita.html

Rough Plots

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