On Jan 25, 5:20*am, "D. Travis" wrote:
Around the low bands so 80 and 40 *it seems barely to plough through..
No sunspots or what ?
What prediction sites is relighable ?
Have you heard the event on the magnethosphere ? *I have.

The low bands are best during the minimums overall.
But the MUF can drop down pretty low at times.
So 80 can stretch out, and the closer stations will
drop out on you.
It will often drop out in the middle evening to closer stations,
and then come back again around midnight or so.
Fairly normal in the winter during solar minimums.
But you will notice when the band seems kaput,
you will still hear longer distance stations, and dx.
The MUF will vary to the distance between two stations.
IE: if I'm in Houston and talking to Dallas and El Paso
at the same time, and Dallas drops out, but El Paso
is still strong, that means the MUF has dropped
below my frequency for the shorter distance, but
not yet for the longer. I'd have to drop frequency to
continue to work Dallas. IE: I'd go to 160m.