High sunspot activity increases "skip", in C.B. parlance, in other words long distance propagation. We are approaching a solar minimum and so the skip is crap. It is a real low minimum and the next peak is supposed to be pretty low. Propagation in general sucks and will do so for years at this point.
Around here in the sticks there is very little C.B. activity. A few loggers and truck drivers but you could go weeks hearing nothing. Plenty of ham activity though.
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