[amsat-bb] Re: Information on Ballots

[Bill Bordy, NJ1H]

I won't give out my exact life member number, but rounded to hundreds is 
2200. It was issued in 1997.

Wow, not sure how many are officially declared deceased. 2200/3176 is a 
pretty high percentage.

73,
Bill
NJ1H


On 9/18/2012 2:51 PM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
> There was an interesting article in QST a few months ago about the
> number of Hams in the US. They mentioned some of the difficulties in
> determining that number. It is easy to count licenses but of those
> licensed how many are actually active. One thing that could throw off
> the AMSAT numbers is life members. I am guessing that ballots are sent
> to everyone. My life member number is 875 which was issued in 1978. I
> imagine that there are many more life members today but even if mine
> was the last one issued 27% of the 3176 could be life members. Just
> because you are a life member that does not mean you are active or
> even remotely interested.
>
> I found it very difficult to determine who to vote for. My first step
> was to send an email to all the candidates. Only two of them even
> bothered to reply - that pretty much eliminated the rest. Next step
> was to vote for people I actually heard on the satellites. I kept a
> little list in the shack and checked off names as I heard them. When
> it came time to vote there was only one person on that list or in my
> log but they had previously replied to my initial email so were
> already in. I then decided to vote for people who said something
> meaningful in their bio. There was only one but they were already on
> my list. I then decided to vote for the youngest person but ages were
> not listed. My fall back criteria when all else fails is to vote for
> the cutest woman but for obvious reasons that was not possible. All in
> all I think a 22% return rate is pretty good and certainly not worth
> worrying about.
>
> 73 W9KE Tom Doyle
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Alan P. Biddle <APBIDDLE at united.net> wrote:
>> So with 700 ballots received, we got a return rate of 22%.
>>
>> 73s,
>>
>> Alan
>> WA4SCA
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On
>> Behalf Of Martha
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 10:13 AM
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>> Subject: [amsat-bb] Information on Ballots
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>> This year, 3176 ballots were mailed.
>>
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>> 73- Martha
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