Mixed blessings for Dutch amateurs
Telecommunication regulators in The Netherlands have scaled back considerably the country’s formerly liberal 60m privileges.
Since December 2015, amateurs in The Netherlands have had access to a 100kHz wide band at 5MHz, with a maximum power of 100W.
Starting on 1 April 2017, the allocation has been changed to the global secondary 15kHz-wide allocation, 5351.5kHz to 5366.5kHz, with a maximum of 15W EIRP.
On a positive note, the same gazette notice also removed the cross-band and duplex restrictions on 50.45 to 52.0MHz and 70.0 to 70.5MHz.
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