Rant... FT8...

[WZ7U]

I heard there were some geomagnetic storms of late, some supposed to be strong. I haven't turned the radio on in days because HF has sucked that bad here and a lot of that has to do with being vertical only right now. Your post makes me want to see if things have improved yet. Edit: A quick check showed 20m with an S5 background noise and 40m with an S7. Better, but signals were weak too.

There is the post over yonder in the news about the last solar storm which sort of explains it, at least to this dummy.

Sometimes this helps - http://www.spaceweather.com/