WQ6X Wangles a WEIRD Weird Prefix Contest

Every year the WPX Cw contest wraps thew spring radiosport period.  How fitting that it is a 48-hour GiG, offering Cw OP's one last opportunity to get their "fix" before the season ends.  This year, the WQ6X goal was to dual-OP the contest, altho a shortage of operators @NX6T found me running remotely nearly 90% of the time.  The difference in signal-levels between Concord and Anza is strikingly dramatic.  In the midst of it all was some quirky space-WX.

Other than the usual intermittent internet "gurgling", the remote operation to NX6T ran flawlessly. 
In Concord, having remedied the 20-meter RFI problem, operations ran about as good as could
be expected, considering the receive-vortex of the Concord location.  From the NX6T perspective,
I was amazed by the hoards of JA & YB stations all over the bands.  Then again I was somewhat disappointed by the lack of really WEIRD weird prefixes.  While they are sometimes difficult to log, they make the QSO-experience a LoT more interesting.  Then again, a number of AWEsome openings to Europe at several normally-unexpected times made things even MORE AWEsome.

Without intending to, I made an interesting observation.  During the OP-periods when I ran as WQ6X, calling "CQ WPX WQ6X WQ6X" yielded LoTs of callers; however, when running as NX6T, "CQ WPX NX6T NX6T" yielded NO callers, while "CQ TEST NX6T NX6T" produced pileups.  While this hardly qualifies as a scientific experiment, I DiD find the "coincidence" compelling.

If was certainly refreshing
to encounter countless stations on multiple bands; it certainly simplifies logging subsequent contacts. 

Altho most of those QSOs were worth only 1-point, multiplied by multipliers, each was actually worth 1,024 points; in-the-end totaling over 1,000,000 points.  I guess it could
be said that WPX is an example of how 1,000's
of little things can add
up to something BiG.

Also very noticeable in
this contest was the number of [so-called] long-path contacts that were made.  

LooKing at the Greyline sub-screen throughout the event, I was often surprised by what areas of the globe were producing contacts at any moment.  To get a better idea, I should've brought up a copy of the DX-Sherlock to either confirm/deny what I was actually hearing.

The last 12 hours of the WPX contest brought us a continually decreasing Solar Flux (SFI) down to around 98-102, where it currently sists on Friday after the contest weekend.  Because the sun rotates every ~27 days, this brings hope that the upcoming All Asian and Field Day events will find us with an SFI ~150 during those weekends.  (At LEAST I can DREAM.)

As weird prefixes go, NX6 and WQ6X certainly qualify on that basis, making frequency-running more productive.  Then again, S&P'ing for more weird prefixes is crucial to maximize the multiplier count.  With points-per-Qso ranging from 1 to 6, point scores can end up ridiculously high - NX6T was just shy of 10-million points, far surpassing last year's first WPX run from the Anza location.

This year's WPX GiG seemed like a magnet for DUP contacts.  On Cw, it's too complicated
to explain that we have worked before.  Because there is no penalty for logging 0-point QSOs,
we simply log it and get on with it.

When it was all over, it would seem that NX6T barely squeaked-out a 2nd-place (in USA) for the
Multi-2 category.  We ended up in 10th-place worldwide, 3rd-place for North America and 1st-place
for the Southwest Division - not bad for a motley crew of 7 operators.

What about YOU?  

DiD YOU work the Weird Prefix Contest?
Were YOU one of those WEIRD prefixes?
Is WQ6X or NX6T in YOUR LoG?