The All Asian Weekend that ALMOST never made it

The 1st radiosport weekend is always full of "high hopes and strong expectations", often DASHED
in an instant, as almost happened for the All Asian contest weekend.  There were 4 radiosport events happening that weekend, altho only the last 3 GiGs actually happened. 

• [X] - Russian Digital Contest
• [X] - All Asian DX Ssb Contest
• [X] - Colorado QSO Party
• [X] - Tennessee QSO Party

At WQ6X's Concord location, a newer Toshiba computer has been swapped-in to run the radio
and has yet to be properly configured for RTTY, hence no activity in the Russian Digital GiG. 
For the All Asia Ssb GiG, the decision was to run QRP, as difficult as that might turn out. 
The net-result was 15-QSOs in the log, due mainly due to PooR Asian participation [in their own contest], along with a number of solar events throughout the weekend which "bent the ionosphere
all out of proportion.  Even signal quality with "nearby" Colorado (during their QSO Party), was highly Questionable.

Out of desperation,
I put out CQ calls, if for
no other reason than to get RBN (Reverse Beacon Network) signal strength data.  

The amazing thing is how well WQ6X's QRP signal was heard around the country, so good that
Billy-Bob (and his brother Barney) would even call in.  I defined the F-10 function key to send "Colorado ONLY".

The REAL problem
was PooR Space-WX,
as you can see here.

This was one of those weekends when Billy-Bob and Barney were the LEAST of my hassles.  Intentional QRM against "them pesky contesters" seems to be on the rise lately. 

 
Here are some of the chicken-scratched not which survived this event:

• 04:00z (14244.44) a CW "heckler" showed up.  Based on his signal strength, I knew he was a local in/near San Diego County.  Then W9EEE moved on in and decided he wanted to RAGCHEW - he didn't know ANYTHING about Colorado or Asia.
• At 10:00z running 7153.53 - a series of JAMMING Noises swooped in/around the run frequency, followed by the infamous Data-cranker 20-minutes later.
• 13:21z 7138.38 (Ssb) is FLOODed with weird Digital QRM.
  Moving down to 7135.35 I get 5-mins of clear frequency before RTTY QRM swoops in - it's past my bedtime - time to shut it down.
• 16:14z on 14225.25 I get the GOD heckler.

The only thing USEFUL in all this was tuning down to ~ 7.039 to listen for the Russian military beacons.  The "F" and "K" beacons were AWOL during All Asian weekend.  The "M" beacon
was LOUD but sending SLOWly Saturday morning, then Weak but FASTer on Sunday morning.  Obviously, some sort of human influence accounts for the sending changes.

When it was all over, what I accomplished from all the effort - was - EXPERIENCE - I Thingk.

What about you?  DiD YOU play around in the All Asian and Colorado QSO Party GiGs?

HoW DiD it all Turn Out?