WQ6X Wings another Weird dual-OP in CQ WPX Contest

Last weekend being an off period in radiosport contests (Fallbrook operations have now ended) coincidentally, I spent the weekend tearing down and then rebuilding the WQ6X portable setup in
Concord.  While it allowed me to dual-OP contests, with so many different devices cascaded together the ground-loops were rampant.  Thanks to proper re-cabling, those loops should largely be gone.  What better than the WPX contest to test run the operation; which is what this Memorial Day weekend was largely about.

With the Solar Flux Index (SFI) jumping around from 74 to 87, the Space-WX was all over the place as well.  Every couple of hours in the daytime, I made a CQ WPX call on ten meters.  The RBN Spots were from all over the country and yet, almost no actual operators were there to make QSOs which actually shoulda been a no-brainer.

It turns out stations heard me much more LOUDLY than I can hear them in the receive signal vortex of this QTH in Concord.  Unfortunately, I was asked to repeat my number about 85% of the time - wOw!

For NX6T, because we had plenty of operators, I took the 2am - 5am shift on Saturday and the 5am
to 8am shift on Sunday.  The intentional 40-meter QRM for this contest came on Saturday morning (11:00z) in the form of a weird chiming sound on 7040.40, reminiscent of the opening chime from classic/old SWBC stations.

In the end, NX6T made well over 2,600 QSOs and WQ6X made a WHOPPING 8.8% of those QSOs.  Noticeably absent during my operating shift were stations on 80 & 160; the JA count on 40 meters was also not what I was used to from years past.  

Compared to the old Nashville location  the ANZA location @WA6TQT is incredibly more quiet (noise-wise), and the stacked array antennas for 40m thru 10m and the 4-Square and 3-Square for 80 & 160 are a noticeably wonderful improvement.  While I already miss the spirit of Nashville, I am excited by the new prospects from a higher mountain in Anza.

Something noticeably lacking this year was the plethora of REALLY WEIRD prefixes; those reserved specifically in other countries for the WPX contest itself.  While there was plenty of activity overall, having more bizarre "Weird" prefixes makes things more fun.

While not a super score, according to the 3830 website NX6T's 7.1 million points garnered 14th place worldwide, 5th place for USA/NA and 1st place for the left coast (W6 & W7); not bad for a motley bunch of operators.

Did YOU work the CQ WPX (Weird Prefix) Contest?

Is NX6T or WQ6X in YOUR LoG?