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This correspondence is concerned with the statistical dependence of hits due to multiple-access interference in the time-unslotted frequency-hopping (FH) packet networks. Relying on the technique of joint probability generating functions (PGFs), we give a formal proof that if the ratio of the number of interfering packets to the number of frequency slots K/q is held constant, hits due to multiple-access interference are asymptotically independent as q [right arrow] [infinity]. We also derive expressions for the correlation coefficients of hits in the packet. Index Terms--Frequency hopping (FH), packet code-division multiple access (CDMA), packet radio networks, spread-spectrum communication systems, unslotted multiple access.