WQ6X Operates a MIXED-BaG of Radiosport Contests

This year's 2nd WeeKend in March has turned into a 7-event Extravaganza, except that somehow,
I missed one.  Depending on how I refresh the WA7BNM contest calendar, the Tesla Memorial does
or does not show up on the list - W E I R D fer sure.

There couldn't be a greater disparity of radiosport events than the 2nd contest weekend of March.
The commonality is that all of these GiG were run from Anza using QRP power into the antenna stacks.  Chronologically, the seven events were as follows:

1. [X] (12:00z) - The Argentinian SA-10 mixed-mode 10-Meter Contest
2. [X] (14:00z) - The Oklahoma QSO Party - OKQP
3. [X] (12:00z) - Stew Perry 160-Meter Contest
4. [X] (12:00z) - Tesla Memorial Cw Contest
5. [X] (14:00z) - The Idaho QSO Party - IDQP
6. [X] (00:00z) - The NA SPRINT RTTY
7. [X] (18:00z) - The Sunday Wisconsin QSO Party - WIQP

The Argentinian SA-10 10-Meter Contest

While the Solar Flux Index (SFI) dropped to its lowest point in weeks, Solar Cycle 25 is still
well under way.  Unfortunately, this weekend was littered with Space-WX storms, just enough to shutdown 10-meters earlier than it did just the weekend before during the ARRL DX Ssb contest.

The Oklahoma QSO Party - OKQP

The Oklahoma QSO Party turned out to be a mixed experience.  Due to poor band conditions,
no OKQP stations were copied or spotted in the band map on Saturday.  Beginning Sunday morning signals were finally heard.  Unfortunately, this QSO party ended at 22:00z - too early for a second chance at 40-meters to make up for nothing on Saturday.  Were it not for several rover stations,
the OKQP GiG would have been a complete DuD.

 Stew Perry 160-Meter Contest

This was one of the WORST SP-160 contests I've ever run.  Between lousy Space-WX conditions,
a crippled Tri-Square array and running QRP, I was lucky to contact stations outside of California. 
The big surprise was being heard by ZF9CW.  Unfortunately, PJ2T (Curacao) was just outside of
signal range.  Bottom line is at least I could say "I WuZ THERE!".

The Idaho QSO Party - IDQP

This year's Idaho QSO Party shoulda been call the IDA-Hose QSO Party as it was a complete DuD.
Like the OKQP, nothing materialized on Saturday leaving only Sunday morning to make ID QSOs.

The NA SPRINT RTTY

SPRINT contests are always a challenge; RTTY SPRINT contests are even more so.
Some software glitches found me starting 40-minutes late.  When it was all over, a whopping
73 QSOs made it into the LoG.

The Wisconsin QSO Party - WIQP

The WIQP is a unique state QSO party in that it begins at 18:00z on Sunday.
Like the other QSO parties for this weekend, 10-meters was a no-show.  In its place,
the last hour of operation found WQ6X scouting 40-meters, pointing the 40-meter stacked
Yagi's to 70-degrees, while praying for enough greyline activity to slip 4 QSOs into the WIQP Log.

As mentioned earlier, horrible Space-WX littered the entire contest weekend.
I will have more to say about that in Part 2 of this Blog post.

Perusing the Online Scoreboard results for this weekend produced some surprising results.

1. WQ6X took 1st-Place in the QRP category for IDQP, OKQP and SPRINT RTTY
2. WQ6X took 2nd-place for SA-10, SP-160 and WIQP

This was all possible thanks to a comprehensive system of organization behind the scenes.

DiD YOU work any of the above six radiosport GiGs?

Is WQ6X in YOUR Log?

([CLICK HERE] for Part 2 of this story.)