Dustin, N8RMA, is once again conducting his State of the Hobby Survey. It will be live during the entire month of March. Dustin writes,
This is the third annual State of the Hobby survey, and I’m as excited as ever to once again embark on this journey. In 2017 I had a 688 responses. In 2018 I moved the question base closer to standard survey semantics and started a blog as the launching point. That year also saw 2919 responses, which was fantastic! This year I’m looking to get an even larger sample size and hopefully get more responses outside of the US. This presents a unique challenge as applicable topics and concerns will vary when you include OUS. I don’t want the survey to be overly generic yet I want to make sure it has a nice global response. It’s a dance.
As always I learn from the survey each year and this is no exception – I’ve taken into account many suggestions and responses and I’m hoping to make the survey better each year. Some notable changes this year; demographics are scaled back. These are good to ask from a survey perspective, however it did not yield much in terms of correlated data and was met with some skepticism. As a results, I’ve cut many of those out.
If you are interested in the results from 2017 and 2018, click one of the links below:
I would encourage you all to participate. The more responses, the better the data. Once the survey is complete, I will have Dustin on the No Nonsense Amateur Podcast to discuss this year’s results.
W8SFC ~ Steve says
As a daily reader of your blog, and having great interest in this survey, (I took the survey when it was first brought to my attention), I agree that we should all find the time to take this survey. It is important to know the opinions of amateur radio from an inside perspective, and this survey could become valuable to those who support or represent the amateur radio community in dealing with FCC and other government regulatory bodies. If we do not use this opportunity to voice our opinions as a community, then we have little to no voice in the decisions and policies that are implemented by ARRL, the FCC, and even Congress. If we do not speak for ourselves, how can anyone else support our needs, much less our desires for future directions of the hobby?
I yield the remainder of my time …