WQ6X Works yet another Wildly Wonky WAE Contest

WAE (Worked All Europe) contests are truly a unique world inside the already Wild World

of radiosport.  LooKing back, a number of truly unique runs have been made in the annual
August Cw affair.

For 2022, I ran as WQ6X from the WA6TQT's mountain-top superstation in Anza (California). 
The submitted score MAY have resulted in a top-100 finish for USA.  This year I have been
running a number of events remotely from KN6NBT's mountain top QTH in Ramona using
the antenna tower #2 originally in use by NX6T when we operated from Fallbrook.

Client commitments kept me at my Alameda office longer than expected on Friday. 
I spent the afternoon buzz-testing a new Stereo-Cw cable for the WQ6X/6 portable
setup at the Concord QTH.

The N1MM+ software (in Ramona) was configured just in time for the 00:00z (5pm) contest start. 
The Windoze computer in Ramona is accessed using VNC Viewer (a VPN), while the radio itself
is controlled using an Elecraft K3/0-Mini atop the office desk by way of an RRC-1258 internet box
on a shelf hidden under the desk.  (In Concord, a full-size K3/0 Box is run into a hidden RRC-1258 box for internet interfacing). 

Running QRP power, band condx. were so PooR that during those first 2-hoursa no QSOs were
actually made; while EU stations were easily heard over the K3/0-Mini, none came back to my calls.  Unfortunately, arriving in Concord, the Comcast internet was out (area-wide).  I used that downtime
to test-run the Stereo Stereo-Cw  speakers using the FT-2000 transceiver as the test audio source.  Amazing the switching arrangement worked 1st-time.

Unique to the WAE contest is the process of sending QTC messages, in addition to making
QSO exchanges.  Sending a QTC message is simply sending a summary of a previous QSO
made earlier in the contest to a station in Europe other than the one you're sending the QTC
about.  We are allowed to send TEN (10) QTC messages to any one recipient station.

Notice that the N1MM+ software sports a screen designed to automate the process.
Pressing a [SND] button sends a QTC message and positions ready to send the next
message.  Repeats of individual QTC data can be made by pressing "1", "2", or "3".

Also notice that the N1MM_ Summary Statistics keeps a tally of QSOs versus QTCs
sent on each band.

In some ways, this weekend felt like a European-only version of the WEIRD Prefix
contest, as there were a LoT of Weird occurrences occurring all weekend long.  Recently,
radiosport contests have become SOOO weird that I have configured function key [F12] as the
"Weird" key.  In Cw contests it sends "WEIRD"; in RTTY it sends "WEIRD - WEIRD - WEIRD". 
In Ssb contests a "Weird.Wav" file plays thru the transmit audio.

When it was all over, it would seem that WQ6X took 1st-place WORLD WIDE for QRP.

Unfortunately, in the WAE contest there IS NO QRP category.
My high score, while impressive, actually means NOTHING.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed a fun time, taking QRP to the next level: Contesting + QTC's.

DiD YOU work the WAE Cw contest?

How many QSOs + QTC's are in YOUR Log?