I looked in W4AN's 160WW log, and he worked at least one KL7 because it shows up in the multipliers. Probably the aurora hurt northern stations trying to work KL7 in the contest this year. I think the biggest problem is propagation, not activity. 73, Tom W8JI > A check of the DX Summit search feature shows KL7J active on 160m > through all of last year.