WQ6X Wangles a Weird 7-GiG Radiosport WeeKend

The 3rd weekend in September brings us a series of 5 State QSO parties coupled with the Scandinavian CW and SPRINT RTTY contests inserted somewhere in the middle of operations.

• [X] - Scandinavian (SAC) Cw Contest
• [X] - Iowa QSO Party - IAQP
• [X] - Texas QSO Party - TXQP
• [X] - New Jersey QSO Party - NJQP
• [X] - New Hampshire QSO Party - NHQP
• [X] - Washington QSO Party - WAQP/Salmon Run (S-R)
• [X] - SPRINT RTTY Contest

QSO Party-wise, Texas (TXQP) and Washington (S-R) filled the Cw bands with signals; Ssb QSO Party activity, while not plentiful, was there to be found - made easier by the array of audio filters in use at the local (non-remote) site.

Altho the IA, NJ and NH QSO parties were allegedly underway by 16:00z, signals from those areas were not heard until 21:00z to 23:30z - Bummer Dewd!. While NHQP had a Sunday period, nothing was heard from New England - Double Bummer Dewd.  Because the RTTY SPRINT began at 00:00z, by the time it ended (04:00z), IA/NH/NJ were probably all sound asleep.

To their credit, Washington and Texas kept running until 20:00z (TX) and 23:59z (WA) on Sunday.  Texas brought us several rover stations who provided at least a dozen+ more county multipliers for the WQ6X QRP Log

Speaking of QRP, I am constantly amazed at how often the QRP signal can "bust a pileup" - much
of the time it's Luck and Timing.  Having multiple calling function keys enables several ways to slip in
the WQ6X callsign in/around the pileup mess.

While recent improvements in the Concord internet connection have considerably improved remote radio operations, later Saturday afternoon seemed like a reversion to a week ago.  Of course, on Sunday (when it is usually at its worst) was actually quite functional - GO Figure.  If I suddenly disappeared in the middle of a CW/RTTY exchange, an internet dropout was likely the cause - I wasn't ignoring you.

Lack of TRI-state QSO party action was compensated by a 15-meter (and later 20-meter) opening
to Scandinavia.  While 24 QSOs is much, at least it can be said that WQ6X was playing the SAC contest.

When it was all over, WQ6X made noticeable entries in 4 out of the 7 contest GiGs.

DiD YOU work any of the above seven contest GiGs?

Is WQ6X in any of YOUR LoGs?