This time of year, I can never hear WBCQ on 7415 here in NJ because it
always goes long.

Oddly enough, I can hear it tonight. I haven't even checked the current
radio weather or solar dials, but I'm betting the recent flairs have things
so juiced up that the signal isn't making it all the way up top in the
ionosphere and it is coming back down shallow instead of long...

Just a guess...

Michael