Bob Dobbs wrote:

Yeah right, like those sunspots affect anything at night!

Joe from Kokomo wrote:

Otherwise, what's your explanation for the 1959/1960 sunspot peak when
20, 15 and 10 meters were open almost around the clock?

Bob Dobbs wrote:

Lingering ionospheric charges were present, that by the way aren't existent in
today's solar lull, unless you're saying some recent snowstorm generated HAM
activity is related to a solar activity spike half a century ago.

Nope, that was not the topic and I was not talking about a snowstorm or
ham activity. You *were* commenting on "sunspots at night" and I
responded to that with a classic historical example of how sunspots, if
there are any, could affect (your) propagation at night.