Just worked northern Italy on 27USB!

[Captain Kilowatt]

"China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Malaysia , Japan, Azores, Guam, Russia" 10-12 meters I think a guy on here said he made these contacts on. How many people have a ham radio and speak English in Mongolia?????!!!!!!

Latest census has that number at 19 domestic operators and my guess is that all of them speak English on some level. There are another 12 foreign operators that hold a Mongolian license.

http://http://www.mrsf.mn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=90&lang=en



As for the world here is a partial list.


The table below shows the top 100 countries by ham radio population.



Country Amateur Radio Licenses
Japan 1296059
USA 679864
Thailand 141241
RO Korea 141000
Germany 79666
Chinese Taipei 68692
Spain 58700
UK 58426
Canada 44024
Russia 38000
Brazil 32053
Italy 30000
Indonesia 27815
France 18500
Ukraine 17265
Argentina 16889
Poland 16000
Australia 15328
Netherlands 14529
Sweden 10817
India 10679
Venezuela 10600
Denmark 10060
Hungary 9000
Czech Rep. 7086
Mexico 7059
Chile 7054
Slovenia 6500
Colombia 6500
Austria 6214
South Africa 6000
Finland 5900
Switzerland 5500
New Zealand 5464
Norway 5302
Belgium 5295
Paraguay 5085
Bulgaria 4950
Portugal 4200
Philippines 4000
Uruguay 3980
Romania 3500
Peru 3080
Greece 2952
Dominicana 2354
Panama 2024
Ecuador 2006
Cuba 1870
Bosnia 1758
Ireland 1658
Hong Kong 1508
Croatia 1410
Bolivia 1385
Belarus 1359
Israel 1225
Turkey 1200
Estonia 1000
Costa Rica 937
Slovakia 930
Lithuania 810
China 800
El Salvador 703
FYR Macedonia 620
Cyprus 578
Nicaragua 564
Luxembourg 525
Cote d'Ivoire 500
Malta 470
Trinidad 445
Morocco 391
Guatemala 386
Malaysia 381
Yugoslavia 354
Honduras 298
Pakistan 214
Lebanon 205
Sri Lanka 200
Moldova 192
Latvia 190
Tanzania 173
Fr. Polynesia 172
Grenada 168
Nigeria 158
Barbados 150
Iceland 140
Jordan 133
New Caledonia 130
Kuwait 126
Haiti 100
Zimbabwe 96
PNG 95
Singapore 95
Andorra 94
Oman 94
Suriname 93
Montserrat 92
Faroe Is. 90
Bermuda 90
Namibia 88
Jamaica 84

 

[wavrider]

"China, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Malaysia , Japan, Azores, Guam, Russia" 10-12 meters I think a guy on here said he made these contacts on. How many people have a ham radio and speak English in Mongolia?????!!!!!!

English is spoken for most contacts.

You can and will hear many native languages being spoken South America into Spain etc etc

Most speak English but you will find that you have to be real slow and pronounce your words exactly for many foreign ops to understand.

Most will know enough to make a contact give an RS report and chew the rag a little, others will hesitate and try to think about what they want to pronounce.

It makes for some interesting contacts and is a lot of fun.

I was using my Swan 700CX on 20 meters and was working an Italian station, He started telling me a story about how his first radio was a WAN 250, I guess thee is no S in the Italian language but it was a very humorous QSO as he really liked His WAN 250 and how it drifted so much that he could carry on several QSO's at once cause his WAN never stayed on frequency.