XPost: uk.radio.amateur   
   From: headstone255.but.not.these.five.words@yahoo.com   
      
   On 28/04/2018 14:46, Alan wrote:   
   > Progression is an issue, but in 2016, 650 people upgraded to Intermediate   
   > and 300 to Full. Given the low (and falling) numbers in the early 2000s, if   
   > we still had RAE, we’d be in a far worse state.   
      
   Amateur radio is not now, nor has it ever been, a numbers game.   
      
   At the time of the changes, the total number of licensees around   
   the world was higher than it had ever been.   
      
      
   Either you have swallowed the propaganda of the RSCB, or else   
   you yourself are a CBer-masquerading-as-a-radio-amateur?   
      
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