WQ6X Works a Wacky end-of-April Contest Weekend

The last weekend of April brings us a minimal radiosport contest weekend opening with the
classic SP-DX RTTY contest, the FQP (Florida QSO Party) on Saturday and Sunday and the
BARTG-75 4-hour RTTY Sprint, also on Sunday.

The 4th weekend is also the ARCA (Amateur Radio Club of Alameda) monthly membership meeting. 
After a brief presentation on putting up and end-fed wire attached to the 2nd story balcony of the 
Oakland Yacht Club, we did a Field Day practice exercise using an ICOM-7300 and Kenwood
TS-590S, comparing signal levels between the two radios while changing the antenna from a
Sloper (favoring N-E) to a more-or-less flattop layout broadside due-East (favoring Florida and
their QSO Party).

The on-air activity put 3 Florida stations in the K6QLF LoG, followed by a signal report from AO75DN in Spain; not bad considering the HF bands were littered w/atmospheric noise created by the latest round of solar storms happening during the previous 36 hours.

After the ARCA presentation I initiated a remote operation running WQ6X QRP from KN6NBT's Ramona QTH (north San Diego County).  Being 400 miles south of SF bay area and up on a hilltop, Ramona location was largely immune from the noise experienced in the East Bay (EB) section. 
The REAL test came when the K3/0 Mini and RigExpert PLUS (for RTTY decoding) was set up
at W7AYT's Concord QTH.  

Unfortunately, by then, the FQP was about to end for the day (02:00z), meaning I missed out on
a 40-meter opening to Florida.  That simply meant that focus could be given to the SP-DX RTTY contest GiG.  While there seemed to be plenty of RTTY activity heard overall, the high solar induced noise levels tended to obscure my QRP signal in Europe.

On Saturday morning, while looking for last minute RTTY action, most of the 40-meter Cw segment (~7.020 - 7.050) was littered with Japanese stations engaging in their own domestic competition. 
The way they sent their prefecture and a designation code-letter, it seemed like a Japanese-style November Sweepstakes GiG.  

The SP-DX GiG ended at 12:00z while I slept, in preparation for FQP (Part 2) and my first exposure
to running the higher speed BARTG-75 4-hour sprint.  In this unique GiG, running in Search & Pounce (S&P) mode, none of the called stations came back to me.  Based on that, the decision was made to spend the rest of the BARTG-75 Sprint time running frequencies, encouraging stations to tune me in properly.  For some reason the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) was not spotting WQ6X running the higher baud rate.

When BARTG-75 was over, the rest of Sunday afternoon was spent (albeit futilely) looking for any
new FQP activity.

DiD YOU work the RTTY contests or the Florida QSO Party?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?