Posted: 05/02/2007
Are you going to Scarborough Reef?
Mike Morris | managing editor
mmorris2@smcvt.edu
Have you ever heard of Scarborough Reef? I goning to go ahead and guess that you haven't.
Why? Because it's barely a place.
Scarborough reef is a collection of rocks and reefs in between China and the Philippines, over one hundred miles from the next body of land. And right now, a group of adventurers are there for the sole purpose of setting up a ham radio station.
Called a DXpedition, a pun on a ham radio code for long distance contact, the group has travelled to what is the second rarest contact site in the world.
The rarest? North Korea, for entirely different reasons.
Jim Hefferon, a math professor at St. Michael's College and ham radio enthusiast is looking to make one of these distant contacts.
Click on the image below to view a mltimedia presentation on his attempts.
Photo from a 1995 DXpedition to Scarobrough Reef.
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