Every 50th person in Vatican City has a ham call sign

by walskion 11/3/2023, 12:19 PMwith 7 comments

by h2odragonon 11/3/2023, 12:35 PM

appears "Population of Vatican City" was estimated by ChatGPT for this table. I suspect they're not quite as fond of radios as all the islanders for whom that license is important

by firesteelrainon 11/3/2023, 7:44 PM

This is a weird set of metrics because ARRL reports per FCC counts 756,828 licensed ham radio operators. This lists 333,287,557. So this is either way wrong at 333million or of all time including dupes like people who were issued call signs and now SK or who abandoned old call signs and have new call signs.

by wrycoderon 11/3/2023, 12:26 PM

That’s a lot of hams.

And ham is not an acronym.

by belalebraron 11/3/2023, 12:51 PM

What if your name is Hamilton?