WQ6X Runs a Rockin' RTTY Radiosport Retreat

The final radiosport weekend in September not only brings us the first CQ W.W. GiG of the year
(CQ W.W.  RTTY), it also encompasses the final 10-daze leading up to October's annual EPIC - the California QSO Party (CQP).  Throughout the week, I have been orchestrating a Zoom event (hosted by EventBrite) encompassing the presentation I made about the California QSO Party (CQP) to the Amateur Radio Club of Alameda (ARCA) for our monthly membership meeting.  

Also throughout the week/weekend, I have been screen-shotting Space-WX data in an attempt to make sense of the largely-not-necessarily-make-sensible Space-WX wave our radiosport activities "ride on".

For the CQ W.W. RTTY event, scheduling nuances kept me out of the operating chair until 06:26z (configuring the RigExpert PLUS unit with the RRC-1258 remote interface box took longer than I had anticipated).  40-meters seemed wide-open (it was), portending AWEsome Space-WX conditions throughout the entire radiosport weekend; the [massive] Space-WX hit didn't occur until several hours after the RTTY GiG was over (and WQ6X's ending score was posted on the 3830Scores website). 
As I write this Blog, K-Index = 5 and A-Index = 10.

Running QRP in a RTTY contest is an interesting challenge - other operators either cannot hear the QRP signal or just plain don't care and move right in "next door" anyway - sometimes on both sides of our weak signal.

Because I purposely choose specific "oddball" run frequencies (Ex: 14096.69, 21133.33, 7062.62) , when stations start calling CQ EXACTLY (perfect-decoding) on the WQ6X run frequency, I know it is no accident - whatever happened to the adage of listening on the frequency FIRST, BE-4 calling CQ?
and, while I'm in RTTY rage mode, wassup with stations parking themselves atop the 14.100 NCDXF beacon frequency, making it all but worthless to people who actually rely on that beacon for propagation predictions.

For West Coasters at this point in sunspot cycle 25, we have three opportunities for late afternoon
on 20, 15 and even 10 meters.  40 meters gave us sizeable openings on both evenings. 
Unfortunately, notably missing this year was South America (SA) and VK/ZL (OC) stations. 
It's one thing to not hear stations that were spotted - it's yet another thing when no spots are
seen from a geographical area at all.

At least WQ6X was being seen in the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) stats.

When it was all over, WQ6X took a distant 2nd place to Ki4RRU.

DiD YOU work the 2025 CQ W.W. RTTY contest?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?