Bill,
If you check carefully, you will find that most (if not all) operations from Aves Island on the last DXpedition in July, 2004 took place from TENTS placed out on the island away from the so called platform. The platform is for housing dignitaries and weather men who "protect the sovereignty" of Aves Island for Venezuela.
I recently attended a presentation by K6MYC of his YV0 operation on 6 meters and he was indeed all alone out there on the tip of the island operating from a tent. Other pictures showed the same of the HF operations. Furthermore, there are pictures and the complete story in the Nov/.Dec. 2004 issue of The DX Magazine confirming this.
73,
Joe, W1JR
At 10:28 AM 11/13/2004, Bill wrote:
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?
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