so ive been sitting here spinning the dial on 40 meters for the past couple evenings and its just... dead? like way quieter than usual. got a few qsos in last weekend but this week nothing. not even the usual lids ragchewing around 7.200. wondering if its just my antenna acting up again or if propagation has just been garbage for everyone. checked pskreporter and i can see im getting out ok so its not that. maybe everyone switched to FT8 and i just didnt get the memo lol

yeah same here, tried 40 a few nights ago and it was pretty rough. i think the solar flux has been doing something weird, saw it dip pretty low earlier this week. that said i jumped over to 80 and found a decent pile of activity around 3.900, might be worth a shot if you havent tried. some nights i think 40 just gives up entirely after local sunset for whatever reason

honestly probably ft8. thats where everybody went. i resisted for like two years but finally caved last month and the bands that sound empty are absolutely packed on the waterfall its kind of wild to see