Contesters,
I'm happy to let you know that after 17 years of contest activity
from Curacao we have finally secured a permanent club license and
permanent use of the PJ2T callsign.
For several hundred contests over that period of time we have had to
apply well in advance for use of the PJ2T callsign for each specific
contest and pay a special event callsign fee.
We "incorporated" in 2011 as "The Curacao Contesting Club
Association," a legally constituted entity on the island. This
involved a lengthy, bureaucratically complex, and very expensive
process which has proceeded in these intervening six years between
application and finally granting of our license. Our application was
supported in writing by the other ham radio club on the island,
VERONA, and we are grateful to PJ2BR, PJ2KC, and PJ2BVU for their
support of our club license application.
We are also grateful to the government officials of Bureau
Telecommunicatie for showing confidence in CCC and in the PJ2T
operators in their decision to grant us this permanent club license.
Beginning in mid-October, you will be hearing the PJ2T callsign on
the bands at all times and not just the contest weekends.
73, Thanks for the QSOs,
- Geoff, W0CG, PJ2DX
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