[PPRAANet] Where have all the sunspots gone?

[K3ILC]

We are about to set a new record for the lack of sunspots.  If we don't 
get some short skip or have some coronal holes this weekend, the 
10-meter contest (which starts today local time) will have to be renamed 
the 10-meter ground-wave contest.
  From https://spaceweather.com/ yesterday:
"The sun has been blank (no sunspots) for 266 days so far in 
2019--including the last 29 days in a row. If this continues for only 3 
more days, 2019 will break the Space Age record for blank suns in a 
calendar year. The previous mark (268 spotless days) was set in 2008 
during an historically deep Solar Minimum. The Solar Minimum of 2019 is 
shaping up to be even deeper"
I used to religiously follow solar activity during the sunspot maxima.  
Some of the sites I went to were:
https://www.raben.com/maps/    (The sun is so blank, that it looked like 
someone forgot to populate the sun with data).
https://dx.qsl.net/propagation/  I don't think the SFI can get much 
lower than presented on this page.  And look at the Xray flux chart.  It 
looks like an ECG of a dead person.
http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/dst_index/page1.html  This shows the 
current geomagnetic-storm low is very low.
Only cosmic rays are increasing, because the CMEs that normally sweep 
them aside are nonexistent.
I know we're in a solar minimum, but this is ridiculous.

73
Jim
K3ILC