When I started the company 32 years ago, we did an informal poll using the now
obsolete electric typewriter and the ham call / pilot certificate printed books.
While admittedly unscientific (we took the tenth name from each tenth page,
giving us about a hundred fairly random samples), we found a roughly 1/3 - 1/3
crossbreeding between both sets.
That is, one out of three pilots is a ham, one out of three hams is a pilot.
That may no longer be true; I don't have any current sampling data to verify,
although it would be one HELL of a lot easier to randomize the data today.
Jim (WX6RST) and
Gail (KB9MII)
kontiki
shared these priceless pearls of wisdom:
-Just curious how many of us are out there?
-
-One nice thing for me is that its so nice to be able to Ident an ILS/LOM/VOR
or NDB
-without having to decode the dits and dahs.

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-Scott
-K2ST
-N6482P
Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
VP Eng RST Pres. Cyberchapter EAA Tech. Counselor
http://www.rst-engr.com