As I type this, Peter EA8/G8BCG is working trans-Atlantic paths, yet here looking across the Pacific... ziltch.

Whilst we have had a few TEP openings to JA/HL/BY, these haven't been at the regularity expected for the 'peak' of a solar cycle.

The saving grace here is QG62 against the lack of propagation has been the complete lack of the deliberate 'jamming' and carrier transmissions for the last two weeks.... observations are now starting to determine that this isn't a coincidence, and time will tell if these observations become fact!