[DX-NEWS] DXCC credit for BS7H

[Bill]

Below is a copy of a email I sent to ARRL DXCC desk and Wayne Mills.  It is in ref to the latest article in QSL about the Aves Island DXP.  I just can not understand why they will allow operations from the module used on Aves and not the Platform used on BS7.  Am I missing something? Bill W4WX     In June 94 the South China Sea Scarborough Reef DXpedition was not allowed DXCC credit because the guys had built a small platform to operate from. It surely was as much attached as one of the operating stations used during the last Aves Island DXP.  I would say the platform on Scarborough Reef was more "attached" than the module on Aves.  At BS7 the platform was directly attached to part of the reef above and below the waters surface.  You can see a picture of a ladder extending from the rocks to top of platform.  You had to walk from the rock, up the ladder to the platform... Just like Aves, you walked from beach across a walkway to the module. So why does the Aves Island get credit while BS7H is not?