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# Overview
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Data and code for analysis at https://mastodon.radio/@W1CDN/111723969200676208.
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Introductory blog post: https://w1cdn.net/2024/01/us-ham-radio-license-counts-over-time/
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This is a work in progress. It is not intended to be immediately useful for
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detailed analysis, but to act as a guide for further investigation. As we figure out
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how to slice up and caveat data, it will get more organized.
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# Resources (not all integrated yet)
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- Various items in the [issue queue](https://amiok.net/gitea/W1CDN/ham-radio-licenses/issues)
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- ARRL FCC counts: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905095114/
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- Added to Internet Wayback Machine daily: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905095114/http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts
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- Scraped daily, periodically added to dataset
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- W5YI Report FCC counts: https://archive.org/details/w5yi_report?sort=date
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- Screenshots to [issue queue](https://amiok.net/gitea/W1CDN/ham-radio-licenses/issues), then entered manually
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- HamCall.net counts: https://hamcall.net/hamcallcounts.html
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- Added to Internet Wayback Machine daily: https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/%20https://hamcall.net/hamcallcounts.html
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- Scraped daily, periodically added to dataset
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- AE7Q counts: https://www.ae7q.com/query/stat/LicenseUSA.php
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- Added to Internet Wayback Machine daily: https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.ae7q.com/query/stat/LicenseUSA.php
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- AH0A data from FCC
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- Total stats: http://ah0a.org/FCC/Licenses.html ([Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://ah0a.org/FCC/Licenses.html))
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- Main page: http://ah0a.org/FCC/index.html ([Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://ah0a.org/FCC/index.html))
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- FCC numbers as images of tables: https://sites.google.com/site/amateurradiodata/home
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- K8VSY's per capita estimates: https://k8vsy.radio/2021/09/ham-radio-licenses-us-states-per-capita.html
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- Post from KE9V that started this: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jdavis/111720350879036543
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- Blog post: https://ke9v.net/2024/01/08/fading-away.html
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# Contributing
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I am trying to stage new data in the [issues](https://amiok.net/gitea/W1CDN/ham-radio-licenses/issues) list,
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then copy that data into tabular format at a later date.
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If you want to help, here are some ways:
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- look at the issues and copy data into tabular format, share back in CSV format or pull request
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- find new sources and create an issue for each new chunk of data (use best judgement)
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- download data and QC: look for potential errors and inconsistencies, share those in a new issue
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- download data and run analyses: share your interpretations
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- choose your own way to contribute!
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# Rough Plots
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These are geneeral plots that aren't perfected every time the dataset is updated.
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All the data in these plots is in https://amiok.net/gitea/W1CDN/ham-radio-licenses/src/branch/main/data.
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