WQ6X Works Weekend 5 for a WEIRD Working Radiosport Experience

As the HF bands SOAR at the ToP of the current sunspot cycle (Cycle-25), radiosport events
seem to be WEIRDER than EVER.  Based on this last weekend, I wrote yet another installment
of the Blog concept "Why you should NoT call me", using Saturday's COQP and Sunday's TNQP QSO Parties as yet another backdrop for the topic.  ([CLICK HERE] to read that.)

This morning, it occurred to me that this last radiosport weekend (#5 in August) was truly a bullet-point list of WEIRD things which came together over the course of more-or-less 32 hours:

• For the 1st-time in like forever, I [seemed to be] prepared in advance for these QSO parties to be a Slam-Dunk.  When it was all over, it was clear that they were BOTH Slam-Donks.
• On Saturday, starting on 10-meters and working our way down turned out to be an auspicious action.  It would seem that moving from 10 down to 15-meters and then
  down to 20-meters was correctly timed to avoid the already steadily decreasing MUF. 
  The upper bands were closed for the rest of the day.
• Saturday afternoon, around 20:35z, for some inexplicable reason the COM port facility (COM4) was no longer keying the radio.  The problem was clearly on the K3 end of things in Ramona.  Calling on another NX6T operator, he made a weep thru the N1MM software and Device Manager's COM port settings, finding nothing out of order.  The decision was switching to Ssb with the idea of troubleshooting it after the COQP was over (at 03:00z).
• Tuning around 20-meter Ssb looking for COQP stations, at 00:11z on 14244.72,
  I encountered CW code groups being sent.  Some of it sounded like standard Morse
  code and some of it did not.  As quickly as it appeared, it then disappeared.
• By 01:00z with the Space-WX intrusions there were hardly any hearable CO stations
  that could hear my QRP signal.  Tuning 75-meter Ssb, no Colorado stations were heard.
  
• Later in the evening after tooling around on 3.849 Ssb, without thinking,
  on a whim I switched N1MM to 80m CW and pressed [F4] sending "WQ6X"
  flawlessly - HuH?  We'll be ready for Sunday's TNQP mixed-mode extravaganza,
  right? NoPe.
  
  
  
  
• Sunday's TNQP started just a bit after at 17:00z.  Lingering Space-WX problems
  kept signal levels way down.  2 contacts each on 15 & 10 meters made it to the log. 
  Then, just like yesterday (and almost exactly the same time), the COM4 keying circuit again stopped working.  Not hearing any stations on Ssb, the decision was made to take a break.
• Coming back at 23:53z a handful of Ssb contacts were made on 20 and 40 meters. 
  At 02:15z, on a whim, I switched to 40-meter Cw finding it was once again keying PERFECTLY - HuH?  15 minutes produced 3 more Cw QSOS.
• By 02:30z, with 30 minutes to go, I bounced between 20 and 40 meters, Ssb and Cw, finding nothing new.  Bottom line is that despite the poor Space-WX, the TNQP showed
  poor participation.  Had there been MORE TN stations, they would have shown up in the consistently near-empty bandmap.
  
  

The only thing of valuable that can be said about this weekend is that WQ6X managed
to run yet another pair of state QSO parties running only QRP power.

After 03:00z (8pm Sunday evening), I returned things back to their regularly scheduled programming for Sunday evening.  After all the WEIRDNESS, it would seem that WQ6X took 3rd-place for QRP in the Colorado QSO Party and 2nd-place in the Tennessee QSO party.

In reading comments from the QSO party message reflector, it would seem that POOR radio conditions were experienced nation-wide and in particular North/West of Colorado and Tennessee.

DiD YOU work COQP or TNQP?

How many Colorado and Tennessee stations made it to YOUR Log?