[aprssig] APRS Statistics Benchmark (5 year update)

[Bob Bruninga]

FINDU.com (Steve Dimse) provided some interesting APRS statistics this week:

> In the last 10 days (to 11 June 09) 
> there have been 40,235 different calls 
> with a position report in findU.
>
> Over these 10 days, there have been 
> 30,623,084 packets reaching findU 
> (more than 3 million a day, 35.4 a second),
> of these 11,874,362 were weather (includes CWOP)
> (1.1 million wx reports a day, 13.7 a second).
>
> findU got an average of 1,610,478 hits 
> per day during the month of May.

These numbers are up from the 26,000 noted in July 2004:
http://aprs.org/aprs11/aprsstats.txt

Bob, WB4APR