At 11:09 PM 5/16/2006, K8JE wrote:

With CQ and so many other sources of quality contests running around the world, I'd be a little surprised if the contest fraternity is nearly as ARRL-oriented as the DX community.

Anyone have any sort of valid estimates about this?

From June 2001:

Total Yankee Clipper Contest Club members = 420

ARRL members 377 89.8% full 262 62.4 life 115 27.4 previous members 27 6.4% never member 16 3.8%

YCCC shows about 90% ARRL membership, and one quarter of the members are Life members

I suspect the totals are similar today. -- Tom ===== e-mail: k1ki@arrl.org ARRL New England Division Director http://www.arrl.org/ Tom Frenaye, K1KI, P O Box J, West Suffield CT 06093 Phone: 860-668-5444