| The meeting bore fruit
and a Royal Decree issued on 11 July 1914 announced that
licences to possess a radio receiver could be issued to
members of the public. More than 400 applications were
received. This advance was, however, short-lived because
all licences were withdrawn less than two months later as
Word War I broke out, although the Netherlands was (and
remained) a neutral Power. Undaunted by this, amateur
experimenters continued their activities underground.
Meanwhile pressure to reverse the ban on licences
continued. In 1916 the first national radio society in
the Netherlands - NVVR [1] - was formed with a main
objective of getting radio licensing for members of the
public restored and by September 1917 some progress had
been made. Receivers were again permitted but the sting
in the tail was not only a prohibition on the possession
of transmitters but also on possession of the main
component parts of a transmitter. (The armed forces and
certain state-owned services were exempted). from "Vijftig Jaar VERON - Honderd Jaar
Radio" by Dick Rollema (PA0SE)
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