WQ6X RAC's 1-Up 4 Canada BE-4 DiVing DoWn to 160.

This is the 1st WQ6X RAC Winter contest and Stew Perry SP-160 GiGs run QRP from the mountaintop in Anza.  When I heard that WA6TQT's STN-2 was not committed for the weekend,
I set things up to run the Canadian RAC GiG multi-band QRP, followed by a short run in the Stew Perry contest, again running QRP. 

Client and holiday commitments kept me out of the operators chair until 09:30z (i.e. after 1am PT).  By then, most of America was "snuggled in their beds, with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads".

While I usually run QRP remote from KN6NBT's Ramona QTH, there the 160-meter inverted Vee originally run from Tower #1 in Fallbrook does not properly fit at the Ramona QTH unless the tower
is run up to it's full 70' height (it normally sits "parked" at 55').

From the WQ6X point-of-view (with limited time spent in the OP-chair), Canadian activity in the RAC Winter contest seemed noticeably less than in previous years - I guess we'll know for sure when they publish the contest results in 2024.  Nevertheless, I accomplished the goal of running another QRP GiG having a fantastic array of antennas at my disposal.  Ironically, no QSOs were made on 160-meters Saturday morning; while the RBN receivers heard WQ6X call CQ, evidently no human operators were around to hear it ("if a tree falls in the forest...)

Operationally, the choice was made to run Single-OP Assisted mixed-Mode QRP for the RAC event.  For the Stew Perry SP-160 contest, the rules are very specific about no use of spotting clusters to find stations - I can use the bandmap, as long as I populate it with callsigns actually heard over the air.  Because stations will receive 4X QSO points for working me as a QRP station, encouraging stations to call in was facilitated by the following F1-Call:  CQ SP  WQ6X  WQ6X/Qrp.

Therefore, be patient and work all the weak signals you hear - if they turn out to be QRP,
you will receive a 3-point BONUS for having stuck it out.  Translation?: DON'T GIVE UP
on Us.

The 160-meter "Tri-Square" antenna is currently a real challenge.  One of the dipole feedlines
is broken, meaning when the software tells the switching unit to switch between N-E, S-E and
West, all we REALLY know is that it consistently points SOMEWHERE - we just dunno WHERE
that somewhere is, altho using the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) data may help us sort it out later.

When it was ALL over, 52 160-meter QSOs made it to the WQ6X QRP LoG.

Once again, this QRP operation demonstrated you don't need an amplifier (or even the standard 100-watt radio) to work virtually every station you can hear; altho admittedly, in this contest, the Tri-Square could "hear" way better than other stations could hear it.

Have you ever worked a contest QRP?....  on 160-Meters?

DiD you work the Stew Perry contest to end 2023?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?