WQ6X Wings a Weak CW-Only Radiosport Weekend

The 2nd radiosport weekend in May is overall a simplistic affair.  To make things easier, it turned
out to be a CW-only operation.  For weekend 2, the 3 radiosport GiGs on the agenda included:

• [X] - Volta RTTY Contest
• [X] - CQ-M DX Contest
• [X] - Canadian Prairies QSO Party

Opening with the Volta RTTY contest, the audio wiring was flawless.  Unfortunately, N1MM's implementation of the contest refused to log USA and VE stations.   As the day moved forward,

I heard very few RTTY stations, vindicating the decision to spend the rest of the weekend running Cw.

Thanks to noticeably declining solar flux numbers (SFI=124), 10 and 15 meters have become largely a pipe dream.

The Canadian Prairies QSO Party always has me hoping this year will have more activity than past CPQP events and yet, every year, another disappointment.  We work many VE4, VE5 & VE6 stations
in other contests, yet when it comes to their own QSO party, we have to enlist an electron microscope
to find the less than one dozen stations we do manage to work.

The CQ-M contest was of course loaded with activity, altho EU had 3X the activity heard in North
and South America while 40-meters was constantly littered with non-contest JA stations (day and night).  Virtually all of them were engaged in some sort of domestic Japanese radiosport GiG which
has been going on for many weeks.  Only one JA station (JG1LFR)- made it into the WQ6X CQ-M log.

The CPQP QSO Party ended at 03:00z (8pm PDT).  Ironically, some of the best CQ-M activity surfaced during that final hour (02:00z - 03:00z) period.  Choosing to run the WA6TQT station
in Anza @90-watts all weekend, stacked yagi's on 40 and 20 meters made for some nice contacts with Europe, which would not have been possible running QRP power or running remote from KN6NBT's station in Ramona.

After midnight, operating time was split, jumping between 20-meters, 40-meters and then back
to 20-meters repeatedly.  Calling CQ brought many EU stations calling in.  At 12:00z (5am PDT)
it was all over.  The only thing left was to come back, gather screen shot stats and produce Cabrillo
log files.

The projected stats are posted on the 3830Scores website, while the logs are sent to the appropriate contest sponsor.  It almost seemed as if the admin-to-Op time ratio is relatively large on slower contest weekends, altho the need for everything to be done properly does not change.

According to 3830, WQ6X took a 1st-place running LP-Cw only for CA/W6 in the CPQP.
For the CQ-M contest, it would seem that WQ6X took 1st-place for North America in the CQ-M.

DiD YOU work the CQ-M Contest on CW?

Is WQ6X in YOUR LoG?