WQ6X Stumbles-around a Weirdly-Weird Weird Prefix WeeKend

This was WQ6X's first QRP WPX contest GiG - EVER - not to mention remote-QRP.
In between sleeping and OP-shifts with NX6T, as WQ6X I found 18 hours to run remotely from KN6NBT's QTH in Ramona California. This QTH is where the exiled tower trailer from NX6T in Fallbrook is now living happily. The same 3-el Stepp-IR and Mosley Shorty-40 was reprised at
55' atop the motor-crank tower.  For 80, a double-bazooka at least got us on the band - barely. 

80 & 10 meters were BiG disappointments for this GiG. On the PLUS side, having 15-meters
open until well after 05:00z and 20-meters open to somewhere all night, were SO AWEsome! 
40-meters provided reasonable propagation all around except that it was riddled with a low-level
(yet noticeably annoying) atmospheric noise-cascade.

A K3/0 mini in my Alameda office allowed me to get started shortly after the contest started.
Then, for the rest of the weekend, I ran both the NX6T and WQ6X remote operations using
a standard K3/0 box at W7AYT's QTH in Concord (CM78xx). 

If my signal seemed a bit uncharacteristically choppy, we can blame the random bursts of internet-pulsing on the Concord end; a problem that doesn't usually exist with the K3/0-Mini in Alameda. 
It turns out the dropping 1st-character situation was caused by settings to the RRC-1225 internet box.  The problem was easily resolved by putting a space character before each sent-exchange; would that other problems be so easy - then again, that's what the EASY button is for.

While running QRP was indeed a challenge, I am indebted to those kilowatt stations who sometimes stood by and gave me a momentarily QUIET frequency to slip my QRP-signal into.

Thanks to the Contest Online Scoreboard, another look at the hourly stats is made available to scrutinize.

Tracking scoreboard progress makes things more enjoyable as the contest event moves through its 48 hours. 

 

Some hours were WAY more productive than others.  Fortunately, the Space-WX was more-or-less favorable for the entire 48-hours. 
Lately, there have been
a number of short (but intense) solar happenings during contest periods.

When it was all over, the raw score submissions seem to indicate:

• NX6T as a Multi-2 placed: 12th W.W., 6th for USA/NA,
  1st for SW Division and 1st for W6/CA.
• WQ6X as SOA-QRP placed: 12th W.W., 9th for USA/NA, 2nd for SW Division and 1st for W6/CA.

  

DiD YOU work the CQ 2023 Weird Prefix (WPX) contest?

Is NX6T or WQ6X in YOUR LoG?