UK Amateur Radio Licences as at 28th February 2007

The UK regulator Ofcom have supplied the figures for the number of Amateur Radio Licences issued as at 28th February 2007

The figures show a very small increase in all categories but the number of new Foundation licences is suprisingly low. If that rate of increase continues we could end up having fewer than a 1000 new people coming into the hobby during 2007.

In the UK all Amateurs have to pass their Foundation before they are allowed to progress onto Intermediate. Since the ending of City and Guilds Radio Amateur Exams in December 2003 it is no longer possible to go directly to Intermediate or Full (Advanced).

UK Amateur Radio Licences as at 31st January 2007
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2007
/uk_amateur_radio_licences.htm

UK Amateur Radio Licences as at 31st December 2006
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/january2007
/uk_amateur_licences.htm

AH0A - Amateur Radio Licensing Statistics
http://www.ah0a.org/

Reports of the old City and Guilds Radio Amateur Exams used to be available at
http://www.kippax.demon.co.uk/c-and-g/  They are no longer available at this URL but they can still be found on the Internet Archive WayBackMachine at http://www.archive.org/

Also on the website are PDF's of UK Amateur Radio licences from 1907 and 1954.

73 Trevor M5AKA

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