WQ6X Navigates a QUAD QRP Mixed-mode Radiosport Weekend

The 3rd weekend in October brings us a variety of radiosport events intertwined with Pacificon amateur radio convention in the SF East Bay (San Ramon).. Five radiosport events were on the proposed-operation calendar:

• [X] - Japanese JARTS RTTY contest
• [X] - New York QSO Party (NYQP)
• [X] - Worked All Germany contest (WAG)
• [X] - Stew Perry 160-meter contest (SP-160)
• [X] - Illinois QSO Party (ILQP)

While I enjoy running RTTY, recent attempts to run RTTY remotely have been thwarted by poor decoding on the receive end (altho transmitting worked FB).  Because the Ramona remote site was still undergoing Stepp-IR interface improvements (custom control software under BETA-test) and my goal was to run QRP for all events including 160-meters.  

WA6TQT's Anza STN-1 was configured to create a robust radiosport contest weekend. 
Having access to stacked yagi's made running both state QSO parties and working into
Germany an interesting experience.

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  While I always ask for longer state QSO parties, the ILQP makes it work by scheduling
  the event on a Sunday, when it is typically quieter.  What made this year's event work
  was the multitude of rover and multi-county-sitting stations, handing out multiple QSOs
  on each band.  Unfortunately, ending at 01:00z (6pm PDT) offers no opportunities to work Illinois on 80-meters. ToTaL operating time was a mere 04:36.
  Running QRP, when a new county appeared, I noted it in the bandmap and moved on, allowing the throngs of callers to fight it out.  Then, when the malaise was over, my QRP signal slips right into the onslaught-aftermath silence.

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  The SP-160 run was simply to reaffirm that 160-meters can still be run using
  QRP power, when the signal is fed into a full-sized TRI-Square vertical array.

An overall summary of contest results says it all better than my words could:

DiD YOU work the Quad contest weekend?

How many QSOs DiD YOU LoG?