I'm surprised there isn't more activity shown during the Quadrantids and Geminids.

Patrick. My plot is a pretty normal pattern for a radio meteor year except there is also a equipment-operator error for the December counts. You can see how the last half of Nov and Dec are abruptly more faint than the rest of the chart. But the December-January Quadrantids and Geminids, along with the entire period between October to March, are relatively more quiet than the summer. There are also more showers during the summer. There also is a breadth of shower component. The Quadrantids and Geminids are relatively compact and have a full-width half-height duration of only two days or less. The summer meteor showers have a broader full-width half-height duration sometimes lasting a week. See the column labeled "D" in the "Table of Meteor Showers" in your RASC 2011 Observers Handbook. (It's around page 250). June to September counts are generally elevated due to the anti-helion (ANT) region activity, with the Persids capping everything off. This chart may help or confuse things but you can see how the Quads and Gems are relatively more compact showers even though they have high ZHRs: http://sonotaco.jp/img/SN_SWR2009A.png These are radio meteor counts. Radio reflections count smaller grain sized meteors than visual observing, that is radio meteor observing sees to a fainter limiting magnitude than visual observing. So there is not a one-to-one correlation between your years of experiential knowledge of the relative intensities of meteor showers gathered from visual observing showers and radio meteor observing intensities. Clear Skies - Kurt IMO ANT stream description: "The Antihelion Source (ANT) is a large, roughly oval area around α = 30° by δ = 15° in size, centred about 12° east of the solar opposition point on the ecliptic, hence its name. It is not a true shower at all, but is rather a region of sky in which a number of variably, if weakly, active minor showers have their radiants. Until 2006, attempts were made to define specific showers within this complex, but this often proved very difficult for visual observers to achieve. IMO video results from the last decade have shown why, because even instrumentally, it was impossible to define distinct radiants for many of the showers here! Thus we believe currently it is best for observers to simply identify meteors from these streams as coming from the ANT alone. At present, we think the July-August α–Capricornids (CAP), and particularly the δ–Aquariids (SDA), should remain discretely-observable visually from the ANT, so they have been retained on the Working List, but time and plenty of observations will tell, as ever."