[DX] [More on Scarborough]

[Jay Schwisow]

Scarborough is a rock....Remember the pictures of the group on 
scaffolding during high tide?

That is dxing!

Jay - KT5E

A. Sewell N5NA wrote:
> 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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