The Solar Flux on Sunday was 107 which is as low as it has been
in over a year unless I missed some lower days so we are kind of
back in the cellar again until things pick up.
A couple of years ago during our extended minimum, I
used to gripe that VHF started at 40 meters at night. That's an
exaggeration, of course, but not much of one.
WB5AGZ
Tom Behler writes:
> I think I may have just gotten a clue as to why I could hear so little on
> our 20-meter net today.
>
> It is now 23:18 Z here in West-Central Lower Michigan, and I just worked
> DK8ZB in Germany via CW on the bottom end of 40 meters--7.015 MHZ. I was
> using my Alpha Delta DXCC antenna with 100 watts.
>
> The MUF obviously is quite low this evening.