For WeeKend 4, for WQ6X it's all about speaking

In radiosport, we know at least a year in advance the upcoming date of a given radiosport
contest event - case in point, the WPX Ssb contest runs during the 4th full weekend in March.
In Toastmasters, Division-level contests are scheduled for some day/evening at some time in March.  Occasionally, those dates / times collide/intertwine.  The weekend of March 28 brought us the WPX Ssb GiG starting @5pm PDT (00:00z), with the District-57 Division-A contest commencing @12:30pm PDT Saturday afternoon.

Because the WA6TQT superstation in Anza was already reserved by K6JO and problematic
internet jitter conditions @KN6NBT (in Ramona), after the speech contest I lazily made the journey
to W7AYT's Concord QTH where a fully external-filtered FT-2000 can deliver a potent 90-watt signal into the weird antenna system languishing at the East Bay (EB) QTH.

With over 1/2 of the WPX GiG already over, setting up around 10pm (05:00z), 40-meters seemed like the obvious band to open w/Ssb operation.  

Unfortunately, the leftover shack RFI problem had yet to be resolved.  Because the Toshiba Dynadok docking port is less than a foot away from the MFJ-993b IntelliTuner, induced RF was literally taking the Dynadok unit offline.  

Putting a magnetic donut on the coax out accomplished nothing; wrapping the Dynadok USB cable around that same donut and **PooF!**

Quitting at midnight, the operating goal switched to SOU-10 - a single band entry (with a dose of 15-meters to test the 3-el yagi as a roto-dipole).  

While listening for a 10-meter opening Sunday morning, the microphone system switch box arrangement was re-cabled allowing the following inputs:

1. A $13 eBay special full frequency broadcast microphone.
2. A classic 70's Radio Shaft tape recorder stereo microphone.
3. A HEIL PRO-Set headset.
4. A generic audio-in for playing WinDoze .WAV files

If for some reason it is desirable to actually mix the microphones, a generic usb-powered
Mix unit shares a really identical footprint", using the same cable configuration.

This year's WPX Ssb contest gave us some of the highest QSO numbers EVER.

After a lunch break, the 1st QSO finally made it into the WQ6X log @19:28z.  One of the advantages
of 10-meters is that it can often be very quiet (noise wise), so much so that the band can sound DEAD.  Then, out of nowhere, a dozen stations BLARE in from South America - GO Figure.

Running as Assisted allows us to enable TeLNeT and look for stations spotted in the bandmap while looking for stations in between those spots.  The rotor turning the 10-m Long John yagi got a workout this weekend.  Being used to running a Stepp-IR @Ramona (or stacked yagis in Anza), I had to get used to actually turning the aluminum in the direction of the signals themselves.

Eventually 10-meters was worked-out as far as what I could hear. 
Thanks to the MFJ Intellituner, the 10-meter yagi tunes nicely 15-meters 

(and sometimes even 20).  After 5-QSOs it was back to 10-meters for a 

languished finish.  It would seem that WQ6X took 1st-place for W6.
(In the Division-A speech contest, Ron Fitch took 2nd-place.)

DiD YOU work the WPX Ssb contest?

How many unique prefixes made it into YOUR Log?