The history told me nothing why an involuntary, extremely painful spasm, is named after a horse called Charley. Charley in the UK is often spelled Charlie, a diminutive of Charles, and it's also used to call a foolish or silly person. Who was Charley; was it the name of a horse?
This Wikipedia article gives this explanation for the origin of the word gee-gee: The Chester Racecourse site was home to the famous and bloody Goteddsday football match. The game was very violent and, in 1533, banned by the city, to be replaced in 1539 by horse racing. The first recorded race was held on with the consent of the Mayor Henry Gee, whose name led to the use of ...
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".
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.