WQ6X SPRINTs thru another WEIRD All Asia Contest

Over the years, the All Asia Ssb contest has increasingly become a disappointment. 
Last year. I guess was LESS of a disappointment, IF you ignore all the intentional QRM
that weekend.  ([CLICK HERE] to revisit that weekend).  Behind this year's disappointment
wasn't something propagational, nor operational; this year, it was IP-induced disappointment.

While there are two internet access points @ the W7AYT QTH, the computers behind the scenes
are a pair of antiquated Windoze-7 laptop installations, altho one is "newer" than the other.

The 2024 All Asia contest blindsided us by eliminating the power level categories for non-Asian stations.  NoT only would running QRP be a WASTE of time, running Low Power (LP) puts me
in the same category as any single-op station running All Bands @1500-watts.

Having likely already missed a 20-meter opening, the operating plan was to get sone sleep,
opening the All Asia contest on 40-meters around 09:00z (in fact 10:00z)..  Working a couple
of stations via S&P convinced me that running a frequency might be quite productive.  Settling
in on 7.160 to run a frequency, 4 QSOs made it to the log before the internet connecting began dropping out.  Attempting to resolve it brought yet another Windoze-7 BLUE SCREEN.  After the lengthy restart and reconnection, 2 more run QSOs made it to the log in time for yet another dropout.

In summary, 2-hours of flitting between the Stations #1 and #2 computers resolved nothing.

At 6am I called it quits and went back to bed. With no state QSO parties happening during the weekend, intermittent time was spent futilely diagnosing the IP failure.  With the internet not happening, a last-minute decision was to switch from running QRP SPRINT remote from Ramona,
to running Low Power (LP) from the East Bay (EB) section - either way, it's still "Ron in California".

While the SPRINT contest is run unassisted (internet spots are a waste of time), it was informative to look at the Reverse Beacon (RBN) Stats after the contest and compare those stats to what actually made it to the log.

20-meter operation offered the opportunity to run either the tuned 8JK Cobra sloper, or the 10-meter Long John yagi, which, as it turns out, acts like Buddi-Pole on 15 & 20 meters.  Without thinking, later in the evening, when the switch was made to 40-meters, the first two QSOs were made using the 10-meter Long John.  The BiG surprise in this year's SPRINT was working KI6RRN/KL7 (Axel) twice and later discovering that we were teammates on the SCCC #2 team.

The SPRINT contest brought us a plethora of Tune-Up Turkies (TuTs), altho it would seem that BOTH 20 & 40 meters sport embedded carriers at the same Cw-band offset, unique to each QTH.  Other operators operating in the vicinity of each specific location have reported the same [unmodulated] carriers, at the same frequency offsets.  For this SPRINT-edition, the outside goal was to put 100 QSOs into the Cw log - which turned out to be 87 - with KI6RRN/KL7 the final log entry. 
 

Further attempts to resolve the "IP" failure were fruitless.  After the contest, an 8-QSO SB-40 Log
was submitted to the JARL.  The main accomplishment for the weekend was adding 2 more contest events to the 3830-score list for WQ6X, giving us a ToTaL of 90 radiosport events thus far for 2024.

DiD YOU run the NA SPRINT or the All Asia contests?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?