WQ6X Wings a WEIRD NAQP RTTY GiG and NAQP QSO Party

The 2o26 contest weekend brought us a radiosport weekend bridging Saturday (in FEB) and Sunday
(in MARCH).  The 12-hour NAQP RTTY contest always runs the 4th weekend of February, which
this year scheduled it in heel of the month of February, with the NAQP QSO Party always on the
1st Sunday of March, which occasionally follows NAQP Saturday?  Sound complicated?  I guess
it all depends on your point of view.

The weekend brought us 3 radiosport GiGs, only 2 of which were available to me.

• [X} - CQ 160 Ssb Contest
• [X} - NAQP RTTY Contest
• [X} - NCQP North Carolina QSO Party

The Anza superstation was already claimed for the weekend, so there was no CQ 160-meter
activity for WQ6X on this weekend, which is fine by me - even with a simple exchange as "5-NINE CALIFORNIA", over two evenings, one's voice can be seriously compromised over the coarse of two contest evenings.

Saturday morning, a meeting of the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) pre-empted an early NAQP RTTY start.  When I finally got behind the radios @W7AYT's Concord QTH, the remote location in Ramona was experiencing internet dropouts making remote running all but impossible.  Similar to the weekend before, the decision was made to run RTTY locally from the Concord location using the onsite Yaesu FT-2000, running about 75-watts RTTY.  

For 20 & 15, the 10-meter Long John yagi was tuned as a rotating dipole.  On 40-meters, a classic 8JK Cobra dipole wire array more or less did the job.  Unfortunately, signal levels were so low, in the end, only 26 QSOs (16 Multipliers) made it to the WQ6X Log.  At least it can be said that WQ6X made the scene.

For Sunday, the day opened running 16:00z TO 18:00z until there were no new callsigns to work.  Because I had a biofeedback client scheduled for my Alameda office, a break was made to get to Alameda to take care of business.  At 21:20z I was back at it, again finding new stations to work. 
On a whim, @21;34z the radio made it to 40-meters with the stacked 40-meter yagi's at the Anza location pointed directly at North Carolina to put 2-QSOs in the log - amazing for so early in the afternoon.

At 23:54z, with just over an hour left, the decision was to end the NCQP running on 40-meters. 
After nearly an hour with only 11 40m QSOs in the log, the decision was made to Call CQ NAQP. 
As it turns out, only ONE out of 6 callers was actually in North Carolina.  Out of frustration, another installment was made in the Blog series detailing why you should not call me.  ([CLICK HERE] to
read that Blog entry.)  Aside from the single NC QSO in the log, at LEAST there was a plethora of RBN SPoTs.

When it was all over WQ6X managed a 1st-place for CW-only from California.

DiD YOU work the NAQP RTTY or NCQP QAO Party?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?