Please forgive me...I know this is way off topic, but thought some of you hams out there might be a little bit interested in this. I was messing around this afternoon and calculated the percentage of per capita hams are each state in the USA and found a couple of interesting international numbers, as well. Population estimates come from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_populat... and are for 1 July 2017. FCC license totals come from the www.arrl.org site here: http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts and are as current as yesterday.
73 de Shon, K6QT k6qt@arrl.net
Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: sre.1966@gmail.com
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Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shon Edwards sre.1966@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:29 PM Subject: Fwd: I thought you'd all find this very interesting. Pass it on to all interested To: Shon Edwards sre.1966@gmail.com
Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: sre.1966@gmail.com
or
Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shon Edwards sre.1966@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:28 PM Subject: I thought you'd all find this very interesting. Pass it on to all interested To: David and Ethel Oswald oswald4159@gmail.com, David Oswald < oswalddb@familysearch.org>, James Edwards james.edwards.1998@gmail.com, Jared Edwards jared.edwards.2001@gmail.com, Seth Edwards < seth.edwards.2001@gmail.com>, Isaac Edwards isaac.edwards.2002@gmail.com, Brynia Edwards brynia.edwards.2004@gmail.com, Bob Niedergerke < bob.niedergerke@gmail.com>, Steve Whitehead nv7v@nv7v.org, Mike Groves < kd7mg@arrl.org>, kd7mg@arrl.net
Been feeling well enough to sit today, so I have been looking at per capita percentages of ham operators around the world. Country per capita hams are:
1. Japan 2. Slovenia 3. Taiwan 4. South Korea 5. Thailand
Sheer numbers, most hams in the world:
1. United States 2. Japan 3. Thailand 4. Germany 5. Canada
Data taken from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_operator. Using some population sites for the US and the ARRL site to get the total number of hams in the US (and using Jimmy to figure out the blasted math in Excel!), I came up with a %-age of hams per state in the US, which I'm attaching.
It's interesting to see the highest per capita hams in which states. Most of the states are .37% and down. Utah is the highest with .56%. Next highest is Idaho with .50%, Alaska with .48%, Oregon, .47%, Washington, .45%, New Hampshire, .41%, and the rest under .37%. The lowest are DC, Puerto Rico, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Illinois.
Shon R. Edwards, MA, AG (Czech Republic) Amateur call: K6QT 1039 N 2575 W Layton, UT, 84041-7709 USA Home phone: (801) 444-3445 E-mail: k6qt@arrl.net E-mail: sre.1966@gmail.com
or
Shon Edwards 715 Strawberry Creek Private Rd. Bedford, WY 83112 Cell: (307) 248-2104