WQ6X Runs a Sizzling NAQP Ssb Dual-OP Operation

As it turns out, the month of August has been about "remote radio renovations", as I move through
a series of receive audio innovations for WQ6X's FT-2000 setup @ W7AYT's QTH in the East Bay (EB) ARRL section.  These changes intertwined two NAQP contest weekends (Cw & Ssb), with the WAE (Worked All Europe) Cw contest GiG slipped in between.  Back-to-back Cw contests enabled
a re-examination of the Stereo-Cw concept.  Complementing the concept is the recently added pair
of LAKATO speakers - spaced apart and turned slightly inward (toward the operator) generates a
near 3-D listening experience, creating an illusion of DEPTH - even more so when front-ended by
a pair of Autek QF-1A analog-IC filters.

The accomplished goal was Dual-OP'ing the NAQP Ssb GiG, spending more-or-less 6 hours operating  WQ6X as a QRP station from KN6NBT's hilltop QTH in Ramona, interspersed with
more-or-less 6 hours remotely running NX6T's STN-1 from the other hilltop in Anza.  Now, because
there were rumors of possible "drive-by" hurricane activity in So. California the antenna tower was 
lowered down to barely 22-feet high.  While that was adequate for running Stepp-IR and a Shorty-40 antennas, the 75-meter coaxial-bazooka was so droopy that it (probably) developed some NVIS-like characteristics.

If it weren't for 15-meters and then 20m and 40m
(in descending order) this GiG would've been a Complete BUST.

Having access to
a 3-el Stepp-IR helped make up for the poor band conditions.  

Luckily, the NAQP contests focus largely on N. America, altho stations like OM2VL like to call-in during North American GiGs.  2-points is 2-points.

With the Stepp-IR set to Bi-directional, it is possible to point the antenna Northwest (NW) and work North American stations in the Caribbean which give us country-multipliers.  Running QRP made things trickier, altho it would seem that calling stations had an easier time hearing WQ6X that the other way around.

In LooKing at the 3830 Scores website, it would seem that WQ6X took 2nd-place for the West Coast
(behind K6GHA) while NX6T (as a multi-2 operation) took 4th-place and 1st-place for the Southwest.

DiD YOU work the NAQP Ssb Contest?

Is WQ6X or NX6T in YOUR LoG?