The AM Forum

Geomagnetic storms and flares mean zero contacts. Called AM CQ on 80 and 40 last evening and heard very little except very high noise levels indicative of D level activation. The Gulfcoast Mullet Society Net was absent....either I couldn't hear them or the NC gave up due to bad conditions.

Nice to know it's the band conditions.  They have been so bad here that I have been checking antenna connections thinking something was disconnected.  About the only thing I can hear is the electric fence charger in the pasture.

I'm not sure there were any major geomagnetic storms and flares recently but there was lots of bad weather across the country over the last several days with lots of lightning. Plus the lower bands are never really perky during the summer months with all the atmospheric noise. Also, during the summer months, with the sun so high in the sky, the D-layer probably has trouble disappearing completely during the evening hours. However, grayline DXing on 40 and 75 meters has been report good to great in recent weeks. Also, 20 is hot, 17 is good, and 6 is open. I can live without 40 and 75 meters for a few months.

A friend reported that six was busy into the South Central state of Texas all morning with good signals.

6 meters West coast to Japan, New England to Europe, and Florida to Central America  as I type. 10 and 15 are open to Europe and South America, and 20 is so crowded, you can't hardly find a clear spot to call CQ. There's more to amateur radio then just 40 and 75 meters.

20 meters tonight between 10 and 11 PM

Tnx Pete. -The wonders of  mapping technology.
The EU is apparently the center of the radio world on this apparition.

Roughly follows grey line propagation.