As a small child, my grandmother and mother both watched several “soap operas,” including the Secret Storm. The opening of Secret Storm showed violent waves crashing on the shoals, something I’d never seen being raised in Middle Georgia. My grandmother especially used to flinch and react to the plot-line drama there, something that I took […]
Category: Demography
UK Regulator Ofcom Releases Ham Licenses By Age: Compares Favorably with US Estimates
In response to a Freedom of Information Act, the United Kingdom amateur radio license regulator, Ofcom, has released counts of ham licenses by age group (see here). The ICQ Podcast covered this story in this week’s episode. They are simple counts but I’ve taken them and added UK population data for comparison. Using a graph […]
Where Are the Hams? Right About Here…
Since about 1983, I’ve been involved in computer mapping of data in one way or another. It’s called GIS (Geographic Information Systems) officially. But two things made it popular to the masses. One was when President Clinton turned off the intentional error insertion on the government GPS satellites. This made the inexpensive Walmart-style personal GPS […]
Revised website…and new resources
A website make-over and expansion has been on the to-do list for several months now. But work on other projects—especially the Magnolia Intertie Inc. and the Radio Experimenter’s Society of Mississippi—has taken precedence. But I’ve started the process…and to poke fun at myself, created the whimsical logo shown at left. As soon as I’ve completed the […]