so its been a pretty slow week for me radio wise, been monitoring 40m for the past couple hours and barely heard anything worth calling into. got a couple of weak stations from somewhere in the midwest but the qsb was brutal and i lost em both before we even exchanged names. not complaining exactly just feels like one of those nights where the band is technically open but nobody's really home, you know what i mean. anyway im just leaving the rig on in the background while i putter around the shack. maybe ill try 80m later when it gets darker and see if the ragchewers are out. anybody else having a similar night or is it just my part of the country thats dead right now

yeah 40 has been weird all week honestly. i had one good opening tuesday night down into florida and then nothing since. tried calling cq for like 20 minutes last night and got zero response which is demoralizing lol. 80m has been better for me lately at least after like 9pm local, lot of the usual guys are on around 3.905 area if you havent checked there yet

im pretty new to all this but i noticed the same thing from my end, just got my general a few months ago and ive been trying to make contacts on 40 most evenings. some nights its great and some nights i cant raise anybody. somebody told me it has to do with the solar flux or something, i dont really fully understand it yet but i downloaded one of those propagation apps and try to check it before i sit down at the radio now