WQ6X Mixes-Up Makrothen, Oceania and 4-state QSO Parties

Coming off of last weekend's CQP triple-OP exercise, I thot I was due for a radiosport rest,
until I made a closer look at the event listings for the Weekend of October 8/9 in the WA7BNM
contest calendar.  Over the 44-hour radiosport weekend were the following events:

• [X] - Makrothen RTTY Contest
• [X] - Oceania CW Dx Contest
• [X] - AZQP - Arizona QSO Party
• [X] - NVQP - Nevada QSO Party
• [X] - PAQP - Pennsylvania QSO Party
• [X] - SDQP - South Dakota QSO Party

The Makrothen RTTY GiG is unique that the contest period is split into three 8-hour segments,
with an 8-hour rest period between segments.  This offered the opportunity to either sleep or go
on the hunt for stations in Oceania or the AZ, NV, PA & SD QSO Parties.

The PAQP always brings us a decent turnout, with AZ being next.  This year, participation in the NV and SD GiGs were a HUGE disappointment.  For South Dakota I guess I am still comparing things
to the 2010 SDQP GiG I ran from Alameda where the only antenna available was to load up the rain gutters as a low-height dipole, tuned with a classic DENTRON antenna tuner, working over a dozen SD counties.

Overall, operating from the West coast theoretically offers easy propagation-access "across the pond" into Oceania.  Luckily KH6/KH7 qualifies as Oceania, being a slam-donk in that regard; altho overall, there were hardly enough OC stations running the event to keep me awake, aside from the other GiGs.  An upside to this weekend was the overall positive Space-WX conditions, which Similar to last weekend) didn't become disruptive until AFTER all radiosport GiGs were long over.

Later Sunday evening, some time was spent tuning around the [so-called] pirate radio station frequency area.  Having never "officially" logged a pirate station before, during 02:00z to 09:00z
two pirates were logged (on 6.920), along with several hours of classical choral-style music (on 6.935) with No-ID.  While there's more to report about this, that will be covered in an upcoming separate blog topic on SWL'ing.

In retrospect, this radiosport weekend was loaded with what I will call a bunch of
quirky quicky-varietal events.

DiD YOU work the various radiosport GiGs this past weekend?

Is WQ6X in YOUR Log?