Steve,
Actually what you say is not completely true. As I recall both Ben and
Howie worked one or two FI8s. However, they were never able to obtain a QSL.
As many old timers will remember, FI activity post war was in the late
1940's and early 1950's. ALL FI operations were illegal but ARRL accepted
them if you could obtain a QSL. In fact, FI was later put on the banned
list for USA stations to work in the mid-1950's.
Only 3 or 4 stations received FI8ZZ QSLs. A few got W8QOH/FI8 and a few got
FI3AG and FI8AT QSLs. Probably the best QSLer of the illegal FI operations
was Bill, W6ODD/FI8 (the same guy that did the only Diu/Damao operation),
the one that W1FH had confirmed. Bill supposedly sent out about 200 FI QSLs.
Eventually FI (French Indo China) broke into 3 new separate entities, Viet
Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. The first two came on in the late 1950's as 3W and
XW respectively (notably W3ZA/3W and XW8AI). I think the first Cambodian
operation accepted by ARRL was W9WNV/XU (1964 on my QSL). It wasn't until
the early 1970's that operations from Cambodia became more operational.
If the latest rumors about P5/4L4FN are true that he now has written
premission, and the ARRL accepts his operation, it will be a whole new ball
game.
73,
Joe, W1JR
At 02:49 PM 4/1/2002 +0000, Steve-KF2TI wrote:
>With reposted with permission.........
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>G-d willing, we should all live to be as young as these 3 spry guys
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> > These guys are at the very top of the DXCC list, says Bernie. K6ZO
> > has worked P5/4L4FN; the other two have not. `Course, it hasn't been
> > given DXCC approval yet. It's interesting that `AGW and `BXA both
> > missed the same two deleted countries "way back when," FI8 and CR8.
> > `ZO also missed FI8.and missed 1M, but did get CR8. I suppose that
> > may mean FI8 is the rarest of all DXCC countries ever, with CR8 second
> > rarest and 1M perhaps third rarest - at least among DXCC participants
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