Thanks to COVID-19 and unemployment I have time to do things I have wanted to do for a long time!

Whilst I got the transceiver selected, shipped and installed, I managed to contact the Netherlands’ government telecommunications agency to send me my radio-amateur paperwork. Thanks to EU legislation my exam result from 1984 was valid for Ireland! My former housemate Anderson scanned it for me (because that is still my address, thanks Global!) and I managed to register it electronically with the Irish government’s telecommunications agency. After 1 day(!) I got some questions about my location (being the boat) and then I got a message that payment was received. I went to the website and I had become EI4IQB!

In the meantime I did get my ham radio equipment (a discontinued model with broadcast FM included, see an earlier post). And now I could finally start transmitting again!

I got very emotional when I was listening to ham radio operator QSOs because it had been a long time since I was able to listen to these and I have great memories of those times… 😃