WQ6X Woozily Weasels a WEIRD JIDX Cw Contest

In recent years, the JIDX weekend has consistently been a little off.  It would seem that things
took a WEIRD shift when in 2020 NX6T inadvertently (on purpose?)  ran as a Multi-2 operation. 
We weren't just made a Checklog, NX6T wasn't even listed in the score results.  In 2021, the
JIDX contest amazingly introduced a Muti-2 category - NX6T took 2nd place to N6RO.

Fast forward a bit and it seems that an unwritten declaration is that N6RO runs Multi-2, while NX6T
runs as Multi-single.  This enables both Superstations to claim a high score for their respective operating category.

For this year's JIDX Cw run, two things "conspired" against us:

• Real FUNKY Space-WX, all but sidelined 10-meters, while making 80-meters a crapshoot at best.
• POOR participation from JA operators in their own DX contest.  (On 40-meters, it seems, there were more JA callsigns participating in their own exclusive radiosport contest, than in JIDX itself.)

Arriving in Concord an hour before the JIDX start, it was discovered that the "Internet ON" button
on an antiquated Toshiba Windoze-7 laptop had malfunctioned, making it impossible to access the internet for the RRC-1258 box to connect remotely via KN6NBT and WA6TQT.  Shuffling the OP schedule solved that problem.  JA participation was so PooR, we probably didn't miss much.

A last-minute dash Saturday morning to my Alameda office, retrieved the Toshiba laptop configured
as "STN-2", just in time for whatever 10/15-meter openings could be had.  Behind the scenes were the NMQP and NDQP (which I missed), the GAQP (which I caught on Sunday) and the Yuri Gagarin DX GiG briefly Saturday evening.  Somehow the IG-RTTY contest also was missed - Ya can't necessarily doit all in one weekend (altho you can givit a try).

Because N6KI, K6PO, WM6Y & N6CY had most of the operating shifts filled in, I was free to make
a WQ6X Low Power (LP) JIDX Cw run.  When there is OFFICIALLY no QRP category in a contest,
I set the power-level to 92-watts and leave it at that.  The easiest way to share what happened for WQ6X in JIDX is simply to turn to the 3830Scores Submission

At 07:00z I finally got an operating shift.  N6KI informed me this was the most dismal JIDX contest

in a decade.  Even the mighty N6RO suffered a dearth of JA contacts, altho situated 400-miles N/W
of the WA6TQT Anza QTH, they are closer to "the pond" then we are, even tho we are at a higher elevation.  Altho this year Japanese-speaking K3EST was ironically in Japan and was of no use to N6RO.

Reading SOAPBOX Comments from other OPs and Multi-OP stations, we ALL experienced frustratingly freaky Space-WX disturbances with the K0-Index sitting at 5+ much of the time.

While the noisy conditions were certainly a "Bummer DewD" experience, it's amazing how many prefectures we actually worked at NX6T

When it was all over, it would seem that NX6T took a resounding 1st-place in the
Multi-single category, while WQ6X managed a 1st-Place for USA/NA - AMAZING.

DiD YOU work the 2025 Japanese DX (JIDX) Contest?

How Japanese prefectures are in YOUR LoG?