WQ6X Works a Wandering WAE Radiosport Weekend

Because it is a somewhat complex 48-hour radiosport Experience, I rarely worked the Worked
All Europe (WAE) Ssb contest, altho I thoroughly enjoy the August-CW and November-RTTY WAE contest variants.  Finding the WA6TQT super station STN-2 available for the weekend, I logged in remotely Friday afternoon to setup N1MM+ to most effectively run the contest largely by way of the
voice keyer messages in the remote K3 radio's DVK facility.

With local internet dropouts a continuing problem, once started, a DVK message can be playing
out even tho a brief internet dropout occurs on the local end of the connection.  Friday evening,
(what turned out to be) a weird software conflict prevented the PTT-line from keying properly,
so, I setup a near-identical configuration on Station #1 (STN-1), only to discover no propagation
to Europe after all.

Rereading the 2025 contest rules, I discovered a disclaimer from the 2024 WAE contest.
Evidently the N1MM and WriteLog  contest logging software were somehow producing BOGUS
Cabrillo format .Log files.  I remember encountering this N1MM and somehow got around it.

With nothing left to do but sleep, I did just that.  Awakening around 14:00z, the STN-2 problem
had been resolved, encouraging me to resume the original operating plan.  With the solar flux index
(SFI) back down to the 120's the only good thing to say about it is that there were no annoying geomagnetic storms during the contest period (the storms did not arrive until after the WAE
contest was over.

15-meters made for a great contest beginning on Saturday.  Unfortunately, propagation to EU
all but folded up in the afternoon, moving WQ6X down to 20-meters, making an easy transition
into the NAQP SPRINT Cw contest - which always commences on 20-meters.  At least 2 BOOKs
of QTC were offloaded then.

Unfortunately, the NAQP SPRINT was RIDDLED with internet outages.  Out of the 4-hours contest time, approximately 40-minutes were WASTED just reconnecting with a stable (for 5 minutes) connection to the internet.  The last 40-minutes gave me a stable connection, altho the loss
(mainly on 40-meters) had already occurred.  At least I can say I wuz there.

Sunday morning again opened on 15 meters and stayed open well into the afternoon enabling
55 QSOs and sending 11 QTC BooKs. When 15 died a move down to 20-meters produced 5-QSOs - the ones for which QTC messages were never sent.

GOOD-NEWS: Around 22:00z to resolve a local plasma TV problem, all the cables to/from the router were pulled and reseated.  VOILA!  Most of the local internet dropout evaporated - just like that.

BAD-NEWS:  Propagation to Europe had simultaneously also evaporated - Bummer Dew!

INTERMEDIATE-NEWS: WQ6X only got stuck with 5 undelivered QTC messages - a far cry from some years back when I failed to deliver QTC messages as I went along and ended up STUCK with 72 undelivered messages when a solar flare suddenly disrupted the USA --> EU propagation link.

DiD YOU work the NAQP SPRINT Cw or WAE Ssb contests?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?