01/08/2007 | N7BF Europe almost non-existent this year to me here in the Seattle area. Also Japan...just a few contacts compared to last year. Of course, it doesn't help when Sunday morning we were experiencing a heavy rain, and my tri-bander got water-logged and wouldn't work on 20-mtrs. It seemed to work on 15-mtrs ok, so operated there and with my vertical until the rain stopped and the yagi dried out. It worked ok on 20 after that. -- N7BF