good point about the 3 year renewals. And with a little contemplation of the age of our membership, during any 1 year period several percent of them can be expected to become SK's. So, you would expect, perhaps, to see 2 or 3 years of under-reported drop in membership while the 3 year memberships play out, followed by a year with large apparent drop as the statistics catch up. Mike Raisbeck k1twf@arrl.net -----Original Message----- From: Bonnie Altus <bonniealtus@onlinemac.com> To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Sent: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 3:46 pm Subject: [arrl-odv:26373] Re: Membership Stats I guess my earlier comment doesn’t make sense since it is membership numbers, not membership dollars. I get it now that I’ve thought some more. Bonnie AB7ZQ From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Bonnie Altus Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2017 12:43 PM To: arrl-odv@arrl.org Subject: [arrl-odv:26372] Re: Membership Stats I’m going to speak at a club meeting tonight (mostly retired engineers from Tektronix). They want an update on the latest with the ARRL and FCC so I was going through my email to see what I can talk about. In thinking about this, I’m wondering how much of this is related to people renewing for three years before the dues increase went into effect. I know that was frequently a big conversation out here with clubs encouraging their members to do that. Bonnie AB7ZQ From: arrl-odv [mailto:arrl-odv-bounces@reflector.arrl.org] On Behalf Of Roderick, Rick, K5UR via arrl-odv Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 10:34 PM To: arrl-odv@arrl.org Subject: [arrl-odv:26357] Membership Stats Hi all: If you haven't checked the membership numbers lately, I'd suggest you take a look: http://www.arrl.org/membership-stats Every Division is still negative. I suppose we are still feeling the effects of the dues increase but we should be working out of that now. Hamfest season is here. Let's get out there and recruit and get those numbers up and in the positive! 73 Rick - K5UR ... _______________________________________________ arrl-odv mailing list arrl-odv@reflector.arrl.org https://reflector.arrl.org/mailman/listinfo/arrl-odv