Yeah, I hear you, Martin.

I have just gotten used to 20 meters being in relatively good shape, and was 
a bit surprised as to how badly band conditions had deteriorated in such a 
short time.

Then, working the Germany station on the bottom of 40 meters via CW 
confirmed what I thought I knew.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin McCormick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: weird band conditions today


> 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.
>