I think the definition needs to be changed to not allow a small pile of rocks sticking up out of the water where you have to build scaffolding just to get on them to something that requires X amount of land area etc. 

Scaffold rocks aks BS rocks was a political thing. 

Every entity named below has significant land mass.  I am not sure you could even find BS rocks on a satellite image without a microscope.

W0MU

 

Many DXCC entities are not “real countries”.  

 

Bouvet isn’t a real country, Alaska isn’t a real country, Jan Mayen isn’t a real country, Desecheo isn’t a real country.....  and so on.

 

 

From: ARRL-Awards@... <ARRL-Awards@...> on behalf of John Harden, D.M.D. <Jhdmd@...>
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Subject: [ARRL-Awards] Scarborough Reef

 

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BS7, Scarborough Reef, IS NOT a real country. It should be deleted.

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73, de Hans, K0HB
"Just a Boy and His Radio"™