7 Feb
2009
7 Feb
'09
5:05 p.m.
On Feb 6, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Art McBride wrote:
Amateur radio operators are .02 % of the US population. Boy do we have influence!
Art's math needs some revision. There are about 600,000 hams in the US. The US population is 300,000,000. Thus, 0.2% of the US population are hams, not 0.02%.
Interestingly enough, this error is roughly the same as the ratio of the height of an LEO to the height of an HEO.:^)= - Duffey -- KK6MC James Duffey Cedar Crest NM