WQ6X Wangles a Unique QUAD 10-Meter Contest

The 2025 ARRL 10-Meter contest is now a Distant Memory. 
Unable to cobble together a team to run from the East Bay (EB) section,
my attention shifted to accomplishing other goals.  Having set some operating
records in recent years, the goal was to set/replace the realistic goals remaining
for WQ6X remote operations.  The operating goals settled on were:

1. Run as W6R - Attempting to set the HP Ssb record for SDIE Section.
2. Run as WQ6X - Attempting to set the LP Ssb record for the Southwest Division.
3. Run as NX6T - Going for Multi-OP 1st-Place for ORG Section & Southwest Division
4. Run as K6T - Attempting to take 1st-Place QRP for SDIE Section & Southwest Division

To accomplish Goal #1, the W6R callsign was reserved at the 1x1callsigns.org website. 
Technically, anything over 100-watts qualifies as an HP entry - running the remote K3 @106-watts satisfied that requirement.  Single sideband is technically a low duty cycle mode, so no real stress was put on the radio itself.

Starting @00:00z (4:00pm PST), the 3-el Stepp-IR (@55') was set to Bi-directional and pointed
at KH6 <==> 75-degrees (USA).  In the beginning, the goal was to work anybody and everybody
that propagation made available.  To accomplish this goal, 56 QSOs and 2,500 points were all that
was necessary to surpass the 2015 record set by AI6EG.  With a ZOOM session scheduled at 5:15,
it was time for a break with 65 QSOs already in the log.  Restarting at 02:45z, 5 more QSOs made it to the log before the band finally folded up and I headed to Concord to use the K3/0 radio recently installed there.

Seeing how easy that was, I quickly registered the K6T callsign enabling the running
of mixed-mode QRP starting on Saturday morning.  Dialing the power down to 5-watss,
after a quick S&P run, frequencies were found (28013, 28036, 28051, 28052) for 2:45 hours
before taking a break and switching back to W6R putting another 43 more QSOs into the log for
an ending Score of 8,814 points - enough to easily secure the SOUHP Ssb record for SDIE section.

With all that behind me, it was time for switching modes to SSB and turning this operation into
a mixed-mode affair.  Technically, all that is actually needed to qualify as mixed-mode is a single
Ssb QSO - making 27 Ssb QSOs made K6T viable as a mixed-mode QRP operation.

While propagation to North and Central Europe seemed to be lacking, the 5-watt K6T callsign
DiD make it to Western EU, as well as N/W Africa.  Rotating the antenna to more-or-less 117
degrees, South America stations and several XE1 stations made it into the log.  (My question
is, where were the rest of the XE1 states, not to mention the XE2 & XE3 call areas.)

Halfway into the contest (00:00z) I switched yet again to take over the operating position for
NX6T (Anza STN-1) running mostly Cw, turning the 10-meter yagi stack towards JA and VK/ZL, running phased with a KT-36 yagi pointing more-or-less to 65-degrees (most of USA). 

Unlike Friday evening, on Saturday the band was all but done for by 02:30z (6:30-PT), bringing operations in Anza to an end for the day.  LooKing for a possible fluke leftover opening in Ramona, K6T swept the Stepp-IR yagi from VK/ZL to JA to USA and back again, encountering two nearby
W6 stations who were doing the same thing - relieving each other's bore-dumb.

Sunday morning after taking K6T to 323 QSOs and 105k points, it was deemed enough to take
1st-place for BOTH the SDIE section and Southwest Division.  Now it was time to achieve Goal #2,
putting WQ6X on the air run Low Power (LP) Ssb.  To save my voice, I ran Search and Pounce
(S&P) for a couple of hours, playing the K3's DVK messages - with an occasional correction using
the microphone.  Eventually, running out of stations to pounce, relatively quiet frequencies were
found to call CQ. 

The goal for WQ6X was to make it past 176 QSOs and 17.4k points to surpass K6JO's
LP record for San Diego (SDIE) section, however I had an agreement to run the last 2 contest
hours for NX6T.  You can't get any closer than 177 QSOs and 19+k points - assuming no major
QSO dings, the record is secured.

During the closing 2-hours of the 10-meter contest, frequencies were run as NX6T logging 189 Cw
QSOs by running the same frequency that had been going for the previous 2-hours thanks to K6PO.  When the rate dropped to near zero and there were no more bandmap spots, the switch was made
to 28455.55 to call CQ with the yagi-stack pointing at JA and VK. 15 Ssb QSOs brought the 2025 contest GiG to a swift end.  According to the 3830Scores website, NX6T took 7th-place for USA
and 1st-place for ORG section and Southwest Division.

In summary, it would seem that the extensive research, planning and implementation made the
1st 4-goal 10-meter contest operation a resounding success.  Then again, it wasn't over until all the scores have been submitted to the 3830Scores website and the logs submitted to the ARRL contest website, after which I languished on 75-meter evening nets winding down from all the intensity.

DiD YOU work the ARRL 10-meter contest?

IS W6R, K6T, WQ6X or NX6T in YOUR LoG?