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Life is not fragile, and aging does not make you delicate like china figurines
KF8KI QRZ Staff EngineerQRZ HQ Staff QRZ Page Since you didn't provide the other callsign, I can't help beyond telling you that this is a problem that occurs when the user does not properly have their DX entity set in their operating location, found under settings > logbook properties. It's relatively common for things like DXpeditions and secondary callsigns where the logbook wasn't set up ...
They were not trying to land all the radio gear, antenae, fuel and generators required to mount a DXpedition on the scale that has been promised. I'm sure they could land with a typical SOTA station - an IC-705 or similar, a couple of LiPo batteries and a coil of wire, but that would not satisfy their grand scheme, would it? Martin G8MAB, Feb ...
Do not put baluns in single element dipoles that would be used for anything other than the frequency they're cut for or the appropriate odd harmonic. Multiple-element "fan" dipoles are great with a good balun. Always use current baluns. The ONLY exception to this are the Radio Works "Remote Balun" and another 4:1 balun called the "Centaur".
This means that logbook will not accept any QSOs dated prior to 2025-03-03. If you want to log anything any earlier than that, you need to change the start date to a date before the first QSO you wish to log.
There are awards not just for activating and hunting unique parks, but they have their own WAS, there are awards for activating/hunting parks and operators multiple times, park-to-park awards, "late shift" awards for 0000Z to 1200Z contacts (good for the after-work crowd), and more. Activators help the hunters, and hunters help the activators.