WQ6X Wings yet another Weird Winter Field Day

In the overall scheme of things, the Winter Field Day (WFD) is relatively new to me, last year being the 1st time I played around in that GiG.  Similar to ARRL FD, WFD is a 30-hour event beginning at 18:00z (Sat.) and ending 18:00z (Sun.).  However, WFD is different in that it is more of a world-wide affair than the ARRL GiG which focuses mainly on North America, altho DX stations are not excluded.  (Technically, ARRL Field Day is a 21-hour event, IF you don't begin ANY form of equipment/antenna setup before the 19:00z starting time on Saturday.)

Wrapped around WFD is the CQ-160 CW contest which begins at 22:00z on Friday and ends at 22:00z on Sunday.  N5ZO (Marko) ran the CQ-160 Friday afternoon/evening from WA6TQT's Anza location.  Checking it out at 06:00z found STN-2 quiet once again.  Because Marko had been using the N1MM+ software, my choice was to run CQ-160 using DXLOG, dialing the power level down to
5-watts (QRP).   Unfortunately, a failed phasing cable somewhere in the configuration seems to have converted this Tri-Square array into 3 independent dipoles, altho the N-E direction has a FlaT SWR, while the other directions measure at around 1.7:1.

The goal was to put 69 QSOs into thew log and then quit.  Saturday evening, after logging QSO
#69, the K3/0-Mini was switched to Ramona (KN6NBT's QTH) to continue the Winter FD event
begun earlier in the afternoon.

Saturday was also the monthly club meeting for the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA). 
Steve (K6OIK) gave us an informative dissertation on wire antennas for HF.  Afterwards, a handful
of contacts as K6QLF (the ARCA club callsign) was made for the WFD event, demonstrating the recently installed horizontal J-Pole wire antenna atop the roof of the Oakland Yacht Club (OYC) building.

Arriving at my Alameda office, at 21:30z I began remote WFD operations as WQ6X running QRP remote from Ramona.  Out of sheer laziness, the decision was to run a CW-only operation.  After several hours in the chair, I moved on to W7AYT's QTH in Concord to continue the Winter Field Day GiG.  Later that evening, with WFD activity winding down I remembered there was the 24-hour BARTG SPRINT RTTY contest.  

I hastily reconfigured the audio per a recent WQ6X contest Blog entry to that effect ([CLICK HERE]
to read that).  By the time I got to 40-meters, the EU opening had disappeared, and most east coast OPs were [probably] already in bed.  Putting NJ4P into the log turned out to be the only QSO made
in the BARTG contest.  

Shortly after, while desperately tuning the bands for RTTY signals, on of the key USB COM ports stopped working.  After a considerable amount of time troubleshooting the problem, with no easy solution, the decision was made to call it a night (around 08:30z), considering that the event would end at 12:00z (4am).  Nevertheless, I submitted a 1-QSO log and posted the 2-point score on the 3830 Scores website.

After some sleep it was time to rejoin the Winter Field Day at 16:25z for the final 90-minutes of the event.  There was a brief yet noticeable EU opening on 15-meters which disappeared around 17:00z, from which the move was made to 10-meters making a few contacts until the band closed-up around 17:25z.  That left moving down to 20-meters the only viable option left to finish the WFD contest.  When it was all over, 93 QSOs made it into the WQ6X QRP Log.

For some reason I got it into my head that the WFD GiG ended at 18:00z instead of its 22:00z end.
Moving onto other things in the ham shack, I missed out on breaking the 100-QSO goal and beyond. 
Oh well, I can't get EVERYTHING right.

DiD YOU work the CQ-160 or Winter Field Day?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?