WQ6X Wangles another Weird WEIRD Prefix Contest

As a Cw radiosport enthusiast, it doesn't get any more wildly Weird than May's CQ WPX contest.  Amongst other things, what made this particular iteration of the CQ WPX contest stand out is the

fact that SFI-wise, the sun seems to be frozen at around SFI-119, while an inordinate number of
solar storms have ridden along with the ride for the last several weeks.

Business commitments kept me in in Alameda until later Friday evening.  K6PO took over my
8-to-10 pm shift, from which he made nearly 100-QSOs per hour for several hours.  At around 05:00z,
I was ready to run a short 2-hour stint beginning with surprisingly wide-open 20 meters - I've not heard such a high volume of European activity on this middle band in years (and with the SFI stuck
at 119 no less).

Because of recent weird band conditions, I debated about whether or not to run QRP as I might
not be heard.  If WQ6X could be heard running QRP, I would continue with that, otherwise jump
the power level to ~93 watts as a low power (LP) station.

As it turns out, the QRP signal more-or-less made it easily into the Northeast of the USA, so,
I kept the QRP run going.  Eventually, there was no one left who could hear me necessitating
a move down to 40-meters, with a jaunt down to 80 at 06:30z.  Monitoring the operation at NX6T,
the Shift-OPs were piling QSO into the log.  My 1st shift for NX6T began at 08:00z.  20-meters was still wide open, so I went on a search & pounce (S&P) went working dozens of EU stations, while waiting for a 40-meter opening to Asia.

After enough S&P running on 40, it was time to call CQ and create a line of stations looking to add
the NX6 prefix to the log.  By the time I signed off at 11:30z, I had worked enough multipliers to take our score to the 1st-level.

Heading back to Alameda, I gave a presentation to the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA)
on radiosport contesting (in general) and Field Day - FD (in particular).  Afterwards, I tuned the Oakland Yach Club (WA6OYC) ICOM-7300 around the bands demonstrating weird prefix contest pandemonium - to wide/surprised eyes.  Returning back from Concord, the operating goal was to reprise QRP operations from KN6NBT's QTH in Ramona.

In addition to the 1 - 4 am shifts both mornings, I was also assigned the 1 - 3 pm shifts - essentially
a shift from 40/80 - to 15/20 (10m. was largely a DuD when I was on shift.  What is most FUN at WA6TQT's Radio Ranch are the stacked Yagi's (this weekend pointing to EU) and a Stepp-IR pointing to Asia - either can be selected or phased.  If you look at the RBN map, our 1.375 Kw signal certainly was heard.

While I would have rather NoT missed a NooN WPX shift for QRP, Sunday on 15-meters helped to make up for what I might have missed on Saturday.  Many of the best stations were Multi-multi (such as KC1XX and K3LR) ensuring that we could work then on any band, at the right time.

While conditions were markedly improved over previous weekends, my frustration is seeing dozens
of LOUD spots for WQ6X on the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) network and yet very few stations from those areas actually called in.

When it was all over, it would seem that WQ6X took 5th-place for USA despite the online scoreboard.

DiD YOU work the CQ World Wide (WEIRD) Prefix Contest?

Is WQ6X or NX6T in YOUR LoG?