interesting, look at the AADX site under each year's results "number of participants" getting back to the 1997 results does look like there was a little more activity. looking at my 1980 AADX logs i used to shoot for 20 JAs on 80cw during an AADX contest this year looking for maybe 5 on 160 and 10 max on 80 mike w7dra