WQ6X Works a WEIRD 3-Way Weird Prefix Contest

There are many ways to work a WPX (Weird Prefix) contest - a recent Blast from the Past BLOG detailed some of the recent attempts during the 2020 half-decade culminating in the 1st WPX Ssb QRP last year (resulting in a 2nd-place win for W6).  This is what I wrote about it:

Last minute opportunities gave me the idea to bracket a live operation from the Oakland Yacht Club in Alameda.  With another remote run from Ramona.  Adding to the weirdness of it all, the week leading up to the WPX GiG brought us a daily onslaught of weird Space-WX, along w/some Weird Firmware problems w/the onsite K3 radio at the Ramona site.

Friday brought us a replacement radio along with a quieting of the geomagneticsphere
(at least statistically, anyway).  15-minutes before contest start time, the radio configuration
checked out w/no operational problems while there was plenty of geomagnetic noise remaining, amazingly 10 and 15 meters remained more-or-less wide-open until after 10pm local time (05:00z). 
20-meters was wide-open, yet hardly any signals were actually heard - nobody came back to my CQ WPX calls.

Saturday @10am I brought an internet configured Windoze-7 laptop enabling WPX contest logging
as WA6OYC and later K6QLF, running a marine battery powered Icom 7300, into a Horizontal J-Pole atop the 3-story Oakland Yacht Club building in Alameda.  

While the 7300 seemed able to tune 40 ==> 10-meters w/reasonable output, RX-wise,
the antenna was picking up on switching supply squiggles and other device RFI from the 100+
boats moored in the harbor.  RFI + leftover geomagnetic noise made running a frequency nearly impossible, relegating us to running in Search & Pounce (S&P) mode.  Loading up the 7300's voice memories made it possible to create several ways of saying the WA6OYC (and later K6QLF) callsign.

While only 38 QSOs made it into the log, the geographic variety of the different prefixes included: KH6, AH2, VE7, VE4, VK4, JH1, LP1 & LU2; rather amazing, considering the limited resources
we actually had to work with.  

During the last hour of our operation, I created a new log for ARCA's K6QLF club callsign, managing 

a whopping 13 QSOs in the log.  If that station was also needed for WA6OYC, I would switch N1MM back to WA6OYC, make the contact and then switch back to K6QLF.  Having pre-loaded the voice memories for both callsigns made it considerably easier to call in.

Half-way thru the WPX contest (00:00z), after we wrapped up operations at the Oakland yacht club
I headed to the Concord QTH to continue WQ6X remote operation from Ramona (KN6NBT's QTH).  The replacement K3 radio (in Ramona) ran near flawless, altho at one point the control head stopped updating the display (altho all the knobs/buttons we still fully functional).  Reloading the RRC-1258 Ramona profile resolved the problem.

Constant atmospheric noise made running remote from Ramona not much more effective than running direct as WA6OYC from Alameda.  75/40 were largely a disappointment Saturday evening.  To maximize effectiveness, I took 2-hour sleep breaks and then came back to work around 5-QSOs each time back on.

When it was all over it would seem that all of the operations ended up making a unique showing.

While WQ6XZ didn't set any records this year, at LEAST it would seem a 1st-place for W6 was secured.

DiD YOU work the insanely noise WPX - Weird Prefix Contest?

Is WA6OYC, K6QLF or WQ6X in YOUR Log?