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2.  QSL DIRECT TO HIS HOME CALL.  WRAP UP THATS ALL FOR THIS MONTH, WITH
THANKS TO G0VJG, K9AJ, W9DR, 5T5PA, AND THE DAILY DX FOR HELPING MAKE THIS
MONTHS COLUMN POSSIBLE.  I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MANY OF YOU AT
HAMVENTION.  FEEL FREE TO SEND ANY DX, IOTA, OR CONTEST EXPEDITION NEWS,
PHOTOS, AND NEWSLETTERS TO BERNIE DAILYDX.  COM.  UNTIL NEXT MONTH, SEE YOU
IN THE PILEUPS BERNIE, W3UR THE WORLD ABOVE 50 MHZ  THE QUIET SUN MAY GET
EVEN QUIETER.  HF DXERS AND VHF ENTHUSIA
HOWS DX?  FW WALLIS AND FUTUNA ISLANDS  THE TERRITORY OF THE WALLIS AND
FUTUNA ISLANDS, A FRENCH OVERSEAS COLLECTIVITY, IS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
OCEAN, LOCATED NORTHEAST OF FIJI 3D2 AND WEST OF SAMOA 5W.  THERE ARE THREE
VOLCANIC TROPICAL ISLANDS WALLIS, FUTUNA, AND ALOFI ALONG WITH MULTIPLE
TINY ISLETS.  WHEN THE EUROPEANS FIRST CAME TO FUTUNA IN THE EARLY 17TH
CENTURY, THEY NAMED THE ISLANDS HOORNSE EYLANDEN AFTER THE DUTCH TOWN OF
HOORNE, WHICH WAS LATER TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH AS THE ISLES DE HORNE.
WALLIS WAS NAMED AFTER BRITISH EXPLORER SAMUEL WALLIS.  THE FIRST EUROPEAN
SETTLERS TO THE ISLANDS WERE FRENCH MISSIONARIES INTRODUCING CATHOLICISM IN
1837.  IN 1887, THE KINGS AND QUEEN OF THE ISLANDS SIGNED A TREATY WITH THE
FRENCH, MAKING THE ISLAND A PROTECTORATE UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF FRENCH
TERRITORY NEW CALEDONIA.  BY 1917, THE ISLAND BECAME THE COLONY OF WALLIS
AND FUTUNA.  CITIZENS OF THE ISLANDS VOTED TO BECOME AN OVERSEAS TERRITORY,
EFFECTIVE IN 1961, AND IT BECAME A COLLECTIVITY IN 2003.  DXCC HISTORY OF
WALLIS AND FUTUNA  WALLIS AND FUTUNA WERE NOT ON THE ORIGINAL POST WORLD
WAR II DXCC LIST, DATED NOVEMBER 15, 1945.  IN THE JUNE 1955 ISSUE OF QST
MAGAZINE P.  75, THERE WAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ADDITION OF FW WALLIS AND
FUTUNA TO THE DXCC LIST, EFFECTIVE WITH ANY CONTACTS MADE ON OR AFTER
NOVEMBER 15, 1945.  THOSE CREDITS COULD BE MADE STARTING AUGUST 1, 1955.

ONE OF THE FIRST FW OPERATIONS WAS THAT OF CHARLES LE BAILY, FW8AA EX
XW8AA, IN 1957.  SINCE BEING ADDED TO THE DXCC LIST, THERE HAVE BEEN
MULTIPLE DXPEDITIONS AND TEMPORARY OPERATIONS, INCLUDING THE 1966 FW8ZZ
DXPEDITION BY TED THORPE, ZL2AWJ, AND CHUCK SWAIN, K7LMU, WHO, AFTERWARDS,
WERE LOST AT SEA AND NEVER SEEN AGAIN.  CURRENTLY, FW RANKS NUMBER 74
WORLDWIDE ON THE CLUB LOG MOST WANTED LIST.  IN EUROPE, IT IS NUMBER 51, IN
NORTH AMERICA, ITS 138, AND FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF THE US, ITS RANKED 120.
FW WALLIS AND FUTUNA DXPEDITION  IN AUGUST 2018, NOBBY STYLES, G0VJG,
ANNOUNCED HIS PLANS TO DO A DXPEDITION TO WALLIS AND FUTUNA, WHICH WAS
MENTIONED IN THE JANUARY 2019 HOWS DX? COLUMN.  SINCE THEN, NOBBY
SOLIDIFIED PLANS FOR HIS UPCOMING DXPEDITION.  BEFORE AND AFTER HIS FW
OPERATION, HE WILL BE OPERATING IN FIJI AS 3D2AS FROM MAY 3 5 AND MAY 20
22.  HE PLANS TO BE IN FW BETWEEN MAY 6 20.  AS OF PRESS TIME, HE DID NOT
HAVE AN ACTUAL FW CALL SIGN BUT IS CURRENTLY EXPECTING TO BE SIGNING
FW/G0VJG.  DURING HIS 2 WEEKS IN FW, NOBBY PLANS TO OPERATE FROM WALLIS
ISLAND IOTA OC 054 AND SAYS A SIDE TRIP TO FUTUNA ISLAND IOTA OC 118 MAY BE
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