Since the modest opening on 28 MHz on the 24th of January 2019, conditions on the band have been pretty dire. Tuesday the 5th of February was one of the better days and that was hardly noteworthy. The FT8 signals heard are shown above.
There seems to be two factors at work. One is that we're at the bottom of the solar cycle, the solar flux is down around 70, it's February which is a month not noted for Sporadic-E and so perhaps it's no suprise that conditions are poor.
The other factor seems to be just a lack of stations on 28 MHz.
Some of the other days are shown below...
Sun 27th Jan 2019...
Sat 26th Jan 2019...
Fri 25th Jan 2019...
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