maybe its just me but 40 meters has felt really dead the past few weeks, like i can hear some stuff late at night but during the day its just noise. used to be i could always find somebody to ragchew with around 7.200 or so but lately nothing. wondering if its the solar conditions or maybe everyone just moved to a different band. i dunno, just noticed it and figured id ask around

yeah its been rough, i think we had a few bad CME's come through and it just kinda wrecked propagation for a bit. tried working some dx last weekend and 40 was just not cooperating at all. 20 was decent in the afternoon though if you havent tried that yet

honestly i moved most of my ragchewing to 17m this summer and havent looked back. smaller band, less drama, and propagation has actually been pretty solid. might be worth trying if you havent