WQ6X sprints thru 1st-time QRP SPRINT from Anza

Because this is a 5-weekend month, the 4th weekend is relatively quiet (unless you are playing
in the LZ contest in Europe), there is only the NA SPRINT Ssb (4-hour) contest on Saturday afternoon/evening (depending on timezone).  A meeting of the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) and clients brought me to Alameda on Saturday.  

Rather than pack up all the remote access
equipment to run (an only) 4-hour contest in
Concord, the decision was to run the event from
my office, which sports a better internet connection anyway.  

Discovering the Ramona remote location to be
utilized by someone else, checking Anza STN-1 (@WA6TQT) found nothing happening, giving me access to the stacked yagi's on 20 & 40 meters
as well as an 80-meter 4-square array.

Also available was a 40-meter Stepp-IR which can
be run separately or in phase with  the stacked yagi's,
providing simultaneous coverage when unsure which
direction propagation is favoring.
It would seem that the antenna switch software failures from last weekend never materialized during the SPRINT contest - Whew!.

Running ANY domestic contest QRP is a challenge unto itself, however the SPRINT contest makes
it an even more daunting operation.  Having access to stacked yagi's make all the difference (kinda), however with no internet spotting in this event, in the beginning it was not easy for stations for hear WQ6X calling CQ, relegating me to calling other stations at first.

Nearly 2-hours netted only 47 QSOs in the log on 20-meters while waiting for 40-meters to open up well enough for a QRP signal to make a reach eastward.  During the next hour, only 12 QSOs made
it to the log on 40-meters - pretty pathetic.  The next 1/2 hour scouting 75-meters produced only 3 QSOs with CA, AZ and CO - switching the 80-meter 4-square between NE and SE seemed to make little difference.  Reluctantly, I spent 20-minutes on 40, moving back to 75m for the last 10 minutes only to snag one more station in CO.

While my original goal was 100 QSOs, considering the weakness of the band conditions,
I am resigned to the fact running QRP (even with an antenna farm), 76 QSOs is a reasonable accomplishment, considering that I was "winging it" throughout the entire SPRINT contest.

DiD YOU work the Ssb NA SPRINT?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?