[DX] [More on Scarborough]

[R o b e r t W o o d]

The operators on the last trip had friendly conversations with the
Philippine Navy and were on the boat at times, etc.
and some of the Navy folks visited the operating sites.
However the group decided they did not want to be around if a conflict
started.

The Philippine Navy showed up because a certain JA did not like the
operation since it was supported by JA1BK.
When I first heard this story - I thought odd - I thought everyone in JA got
along.
An unhappy JA called the Philippine consulate and gave them a story
something about folks on the island trying to claim it for another country.
You won't read that version - you will hear it from those involved.
http://www.iglou.com/n4gn/sr/bltns/bltn13.html

73

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Sewell N5NA" <n5na at arrl.net>
To: <dx at w5qgg.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:06 PM
Subject: [DX] [More on Scarborough]




Scarborough Reef (a.k.a. Huang Yan Dao) is located at 15.1 North 117.5 East
in the South China Sea and is more than 500 miles from mainland China.
There have been three BS7H operations from Huang Yan Dao, which literally
means Yellow Rock Islands.  The first operation, which made about 2,000
QSOs, was in late June 1994 and did not count for DXCC.  The second
operation started on April 12, 1995 and ran for just under 4 days managing
some 11,835 QSOs.  This operation did count for DXCC.  The last operation
took place in late April and early May 1997 but came to a halt after just
over 70 hours and 13,154 QSOs.  This was when the Philippine Navy showed up
and the Chinese ops agreed to leave.  Scarborough Reef now ranks as the
number one most wanted DXCC Entity.  In fact it is number one everywhere
except in Asia (#7), North America Mountain Time Zone (#3) and North America
Pacific Time Zone (#4).

Bernie McClenny, W3UR

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