WQ6X Works a Mixed-Bag, Mixed-mode Weird Radiosport Weekend

This last weekend brought us a handful of disparate radiosport events, partitioning a more-or-less
~35-hour time-block into one challenge after another.  Behind it all were several bouts of solar noise, making the radiosport portions of the weekend - tedious at best.

As President of the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA), on the 3rd Saturday of every month
we hold a club board meeting.  (The other members of the board deserve ToTaL acknowledgement
for everything they do and the time they invest.)  After the meeting, certain that ARCA is in GooD hands, after a nearly fruitless search for NYQP stations, Dennis (W7AYT) and I headed over to the Pacificon ham fest, a nearly 20-minute drive from the Concord QTH.

Pacificon is/was a pivotal West coast event in Amateur Radio.  Being close by, Pacificon is the ideal place to hook up w/long-lost radio-OPs and contest fraternal organizations.  Surprisingly, I missed several photo-OP opportunities.  The CooLest part of Pacificon was the W1AW/6 multi-multi station setup hosted by the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association (PAARA) and manned by youngsters from local scouting groups.  Returning from Pacificon, I was given remote access to run the WAG (Worked All Germany) contest event from WA6TQT's super station setup in Anza, just in time for a juicy pair of solar-storms (K-Index=4).  

Being a mere 11-hour event, by 01:00z, the NYQP was OVER.  While a handful of EU stations were heard on 20 & 15 (10-meters was noise-free, but DEAD), communications with Germany didn't actually occur until early-evening on
40-meters. 

Returning to 20m periodically found
N. European stations (OH, LA & EA), yet again, no Germany. 

As it turned out, by midnight (unbeknownst to me) the WAG event was actually OVER for WQ6X.

After a handful of sleep hours, I awoke to check 40 and 20 meters for German activity (already late
in the morning in Germany, 80-meters was long gone on their end); any 80-meter openings on the West coast at this time were to Asia and the Pacific certainly NoT to Europe.

Sunday morning brought us the illustrious ILQP QSO Party event.  Running ILQP from the WA6TQT super station brought-in dozens of W9 stations; mostly Cw, with a not-insignificant number of stations on Ssb - stations were heard in Anza that would not have been copyable from the Concord QTH.

While solar storms were largely over, making 10-meters work was certainly a challenge, which required calling "CQ ILQP" on Cw.  For Ssb, tuning around the phone band I heard a QSO with
a station just-outside of Chicago.  When he was finished a 5-minute QSO put him in the ILQP log
for 10-meters.  His computer records indicated that we last worked during the Dec-2013 ARRL 10M contest - Amazing.  When we finished, a station in N. Illinois called in.  He was moved off frequency
to consummate the 2nd (and final) ILQP Ssb contact on 10-meters.

Moving down to 20-meters, it quickly became evident there were no more unworked ILQP stations
left on the band.  In the phone band, there were no ILQP stations - period.  It became clear that moving early (22:00z) down to 40-meters would once-again introduce new IL stations to work. 
During the last 20-minutes of the QSO Party, moving on down to 80-meters enabled starting over,
one more time.  (Sometimes, timing is everything.)  The final wrap on this radiosport weekend was
to post all 3 scores (on 3830) and submit each Cabrillo log file to the proper contest committee.

As it turns out, WQ6X took 9th-place in the ILQP and 1st-place for California.  GO Figure.

DiD YOU work the state QSO parties and/or the Worked All Germany contest?

How DiD it all turnout for you?

UPDATE:

This JUST came in!