WQ6X Wanders thru a Very Wonky, Weird & Very MESSY 5-contest Collage

This was another of those radiosport weekend collages that promised MUCHO and delivered POCO.
Accompanied by a flurry of Space-WX storms, other than the RTTY contest, not a lot of success was made.  Everything about April's first radiosport weekend was just a bit weird, yet again validating the utilization of the recently implemented F-12 [WEIRD] key.

For openers, all the events commenced @12:00z or later - for WQ6X still the "middle of the night".  Beginning 5am, opening the EA-RTTY contest on 40-meters, hoping for an Asian opening turned
out to be a waste of time. Moving to 20-meters found an opening via N-E.

For the 3 QSO Parties (LA, MS & MO) the hope was for some activation of their rare counties.  Space-WX induced poor propagation all-but negated any real success in the LA & MS GiGs.  Missouri, being geographically closer and along the N-E propagation curve, as well as a 2nd-run
on Sunday, made MOQP the premiere QSO party for the weekend.  What made this weekend different over previous operations was the decision to run every contest GiG QRP whenever
available in the contest rules.

Pulsing internet dropouts at the Concord QTH necessitated recording the F1-CQ, F3-TU and
F4-WQ6X tones in the corresponding K3 digital voice keyer (DVK) memory.  Then, even if the
internet drops during transmission, the radio (on the other end) actually doing the transmission
is not affected.  The downside of this method is the [ESC] key does not interrupt the xmission;
it takes the stop button on the K3 to accomplish that.

Unfortunately, the time wasted looking for LA and MS stations detracted significantly from the
already meager EA-RTTY score.  Of course, behind it all was the annoying intermittent appearance
of geomagnetic storms, often contributing to radio dropouts on 20, 15 and even 40-meters. 
The hoped-for 40-meter opening DiD occur on Sunday morning; however, the Cw/Digital
portion of the band was LITTERED w/Ssb signals, NoT RTTY.

The backdrop for the weekend was the HORRENDOUS solar storms littered throughout the weekend; some so severe the SFI number registered as ZERO.

When it was ALL over, they only thing I can really be certain of is that I switched different modes
a dozen different times and eventually submitted a bunch of LoG files, confirming the fact that
was indeed in action throughout this WEIRD radiosport weekend.

DiD YOU participate in this 1st weekend's radiosport GiGs?

Is WQ6X /QRP in YOUR LoGs?