Rough translation of an article in Het Parool about a short hype in
the beginning of the eighties in the Netherlands, when many people
started transmitting on the 27 MC band. This is not about the dutch
piratestations btw.

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Neelie Smit Kroes (statesecretary at the time) almost got a statue for it,
that is how happy the etheramateurs were on the 3rd of March 1980 with
the new law on telecommunications that liberated them from illegality.