[OKDXA] More on Scarborough

[Coy Day]

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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