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Congrats Dutch Novice license holders
Posted: 18 Jun 2021 01:04 AM PDT
https://pe4bas.blogspot.com/2021/06/congrats-dutch-novice-license-holders.html
Congrats Dutch novice license holders. It took about 5 years to get some
more space on the amateur radio bands. Besides that you don't have to
reduce power to 25W anymore and can use full power from a 100W radio.
Starting today this is what you get:
• Use 100 watts PEP for frequencies below 30 MHz
• Use the full 40-meter band (7.0 – 7.2 MHz)
• Use 20-meter band (14.00 – 14.25 MHz)
• Use full 10-meter band (28.0 – 29.7 MHz)
• VHF and UHF unchanged
• No minimum age limit to get a license
However, there seems that they made a mistake. Originally the N-license
holders would get access to the entire 20m band. Agentschap Telecom is
trying to solve this mistake.
I've been a novice license holder in 1998 for one year. If you look for my PD1AKZ call on QRZ you will be redirected to my PE4BAS callsign site. We
only had access to VHF/UHF with 25W max at that time. If we had HF access
at that time I would still have the PD1AKZ license I guess. For people that
are just getting into this hobby this is a great improvement.
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