WQ6X Wangles another QRP CQ WW Cw Contest

November months that sport 5 contest weekends bring us the 48-hour CQ W.W. Cw contest during
a weekend set aside exclusively for this event.  Operators who do not work Cw were probably oblivious to the 10,000+ station pandemonium happening at the bottom of every HF radio band.  Behind the scenes was remnants of solar storms happening during the Thanksgiving holiday.

Logistically, this year's contest GiG was a not-insignificant challenge.  Getting permission to run
from Anza STN-1 (@WA6TQT) offered the first opportunity to test a new SD-100 antenna controller box for a 40-meter Stepp-IR yagi.  (While it worked flawlessly during the contest, according to N6KI,
it failed shortly after the contest ended.  DiD I "wear it out"?)  All that aside, the plan was to run the CQ Worldwide Cw contest using QRP power (5-watts), leveraging the wide array of stacked-yagi arrays, available at the Anza QTH.

The first four hours of the contest were run using the K3/0-Mini from my Alameda office. 
An "exploding toilet" in the building (a long story) ruined that last hour, motivating me to pack
up early and move the setup to W7AYT's Concord QTH.  Altho the internet there has been "jittery" lately, at least there were no odiferous smells to contend with.  (As it turns out, the internet held up quite nicely until just after the contest end.)

Starting at 00:00z (4pm), the operating goal was to open on 10-meters, moving down to 15, 20 & 40 as the evening progressed.  While the SFI was only 120 (it jumped to 160-190 immediately after the contest), the upper bands (on the West Coast at any rate) were quite productive.  The variety of stations encountered was truly amazing, putting 78 countries overall in the WQ6X contest log.

Being a 48-hour contest, there were numerous opportunities to leverage each HF band (including 160).  Running QRP power, I often open each band with Search & Pounce (S&P), picking up the
easy "juicy" DX stations before a wide-open run frequency (is there really such a thing?) can be found. 

Unfortunately, QRP signals invite unscrupulous operators to "move-in next door" and fire-up their KW+ CQ calls (HELP!)  Several times I had to shift frequency 200hz and use the F-11 key
("QRL QSY") to wake them up.

After the contest, reading the various SOAPBOX submissions found numerous different
takes on the quality of band conditions and propagation.

When it was all over, preliminary indications are that WQ6X took 5th-place over all
and 2nd-place for USA & North America.

DiD YOU work the CQ WW DX Cw contest?

How many Countries and Zones did you work?

Is WQ6X in YOUR Log?