WQ6X Works a WEIRD JIDX & WAE Weekend

With the Sweepstakes Cw contest well behind us, the 2nd weekend is all about Europe and Japan; so-called Europe with the WAE (Worked All Europe) RTTY contest with the Japanese DX Ssb contest sandwiched in the middle.  RTTY, I run by way of the FT-2000 in the SF East Bay.  

For the JIDX contest, I put in 2-shifts for NX6T at 2am to 5am and then 6 to 10pm (both on Saturday) running the Anza station (WA6TQT) remotely from the bay area.  WQ6X ran a last-minute operation
on 40-meters before the contest ended.  Here is what I wrote about it in my WQ6X 3830-scores submission:

This TRULY was a last-minute WQ6X ad-HOC JIDX operation.

Running operator shifts for NX6T and numerous commitments in Alameda

kept me out of the OP-chair until waking up @11:00z reminded me that

WQ6X had yet to make a JIDX appearance.  Remembering that the best

openings to JA are after midnight, I settled in on 7131.31 for 90 mins.

Rude stations and purposeful RTTY QRM required I move the run

frequency +/- 100-cycles.

For this Blog entry, I have decided to let the soapbox comments tell much of the story.

...seemed like activity down as many times bands open with good sigs from JA 

but no takers of our CQs.  We missed Friday nite 80 Mtr action as new antenna

management software locked our 80 4 square in NE Azimuth plus knocked us

off air for 30 minutes. Lost another 2 hours due lack of operators at couple time

slots.  20 meters still doesn't yield many QS and 40 Qs were way down for us

this year.

Thanks to WA6TQT for use of great site. 

 73 Dennis N6KI

It would seem that NX6T took another worldwide 1st-place (ToP MoP as the Japanese call it) for
the multi-single category.  (K3EST @N6RO has advanced to the Multi-2 classification, leaving NX6T to dominate the multi-single category.)  Assuming that no one submits a SOSB-40 LoG, WQ6X takes
a 1st-place in that category - by default.

Because this was an Asian-focused weekend, it made sense to look for Russian beacon activity
on their ~7.038 cluster frequency.  The "F" beacon has been AWOLE in W6-land for nearly a year. 
As recent as Friday evening before JIDX, only the "K" beacon has been heard.  Sunday morning,
out of nowhere the "M" beacon makes a mediumly-strong appearance.