WQ6X Zig-Zags thru another XE-RTTY Contest

Becoming a fan of RTTY contests, the XE-RTTY contest has become an annual enjoyment. 
While I've been running a number of radiosport events (such as the RTTY RU) with QRP power,
the XE-RTTY GiG has no QRP-category, encouraging me to run Low Power (LP) - 99.5 watts. 

This year, my BiG question was: WHERE were all the XE stations?  Less than a dozen XE callsigns were heard in the SF bay area.  Less than a handful of different Mexican states actually ended up in the log.  Was the XE turnout actually that low or was it just the effect of the Concord receive-vortex, missing all the XE signals?

In recent months I have also been turning on the access to the contest online score board. 
It's actually a kick to see WQ6X move up and down in the standings.  Running low power,
WQ6X typically places at around 25th-place.  An interesting feature of the scoreboard is the
ability to track QSOs, Multipliers and total score on an hourly basis.

Typical of radiosport weekends this year,
10-meters has been THE band; at least, in the daytime.  Next up has been 40-meters, altho for the XE-RTTY GiG, turnout on 40-meters was actually quite a disappointment.  

For some reason, this year, 20-meters has been a "non-producer" overall; especially in recent RTTY contests, where 20-meters used to be THE RTTY band.

While there is a pair of Autek QF-1A
filters installed in the receive audio line, unfortunately, they are of no use to RTTY operations as the RigExpert PLUS unit intercepts the audio BEFORE the filters
"see" the data. 

I am proposing an experiment wherein the RiGExpert audio is intercepted and routed THRU the pair QF-1A filters BEFORE being re-directed into the computer's sound card facility.  This will open up the possibility for TRUE stereo RTTY - similar to the way we run Stereo-Cw and Stereo-Ssb.

DiD YOU work the XE RTTY contest this year?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?