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1966 insurance program for landlords starts with 166 AMA chartered clubs and about 20,000 members already existing
1980 about 1300 AMA chartered clubs are in existence
1980 AMA membership was 77,736
2004 about 2500 AMA chartered clubs are in existence
2004 AMA membership about 160,000
Up until about 1983, the FCC required a license to operate an RC “station”. The number of AMA members ran about 1/3 the number of FCC licenses. Unfortunately, the comparison is no longer available because of the discontinuance of the licenses.
So how do those numbers compare with the rate of population growth in this country?
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Drink some of Matt's coffee, eat some of gow589's dougunuts, get on Google and find out for us.
Actually, the us census page has the info:
http://www.census.gov/population/censusdata/table-2.pdf
In 1960 the total U.S. population was 179,323,175
In 1970 the total U.S. population was 203,302,031
In 1980 the total U.S. population was 226,542,199
In 1990 the total U.S. population was 248,709,873
In 2000 the total U.S. population was 281,421,906
So, the AMA was about 0.01045% of the U.S. population in 1966,
and around 0.00057% of the U.S. population in 2004....looks like the AMA is losing ground. Time for some coffee and doughnuts.