Propgtn HF Bands real strong

[Saint]

1556 UTC
The hf bands are comming in real strong today Amature Radio 20-40-17 Bands, picking up a lot of signals now.
Steve

 

[Boombox]

Earlier today I heard a couple VOA broadcasts to Africa, from parts of Africa, and I'm in the NW US, so yeah, conditions are slowly coming back.

 

[Saint]

Earlier today I heard a couple VOA broadcasts to Africa, from parts of Africa, and I'm in the NW US, so yeah, conditions are slowly coming back.

I am listening in now And I was picking up 6105 NHK Radio Japan, 6150 Radio Romania all day it's been real good conditions in the AM Broadcast bands and in the Amature Bands, It's been awhile since I have seen this, I noticed the change starting a couple of days ago for me.
Steve

 

[majoco]

Radio signal reports are designed for many purposes - to help another listener to find the station - to report to the station that you heard his signal - and to write a useful report in your logbook for future reference maybe in year to come.
Try here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_report

Many reports I read recently are useless. No UTC time, no local time, no frequency, no signal quality, no broadcast content - it's not that hard - lets do it properly.

 

[Saint]

Radio signal reports are designed for many purposes - to help another listener to find the station - to report to the station that you heard his signal - and to write a useful report in your logbook for future reference maybe in year to come.
Try here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_report

Many reports I read recently are useless. No UTC time, no local time, no frequency, no signal quality, no broadcast content - it's not that hard - lets do it properly.

If you don't find these post helpful don't read them, thank you

 

[Boombox]

Radio signal reports are designed for many purposes - to help another listener to find the station - to report to the station that you heard his signal - and to write a useful report in your logbook for future reference maybe in year to come.
Try here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reception_report

Many reports I read recently are useless. No UTC time, no local time, no frequency, no signal quality, no broadcast content - it's not that hard - lets do it properly.

I use SIO (the shortened version of SINPO that is used on the only SW online log site I frequent), and face it: it's all subjective anyway. One radio's S-meter is different from another's even if your radio has DSP where conceivably the "S-meter" (usually a three or four bar 'meter') is not very accurate. Agree overall that if someone is going to post an actual reception report, time, frequency, and general frequency strength and readability is useful.

But I took the OP's original posting as a general observation on the relative state of the SW bands, compared to, say, two years ago when it was mostly static in many latitudes.