So hilariously true. Personal anecdote: Many years ago, I recall a solar flare hitting during the annual Field Day competition -- I was operating 14MHz phone i

So hilariously true. Personal anecdote: Many years ago, I recall a solar flare hitting during the annual Field Day competition -- I was operating 14MHz phone in the afternoon, great conditions from my mid-west corn-belt location to both East and West coast. Then.... over a period of about 5 minutes it was like a door slammed shut, and there was nothing but noise on the 14MHz band, or any other band. After about a hour or so, I remember the noise level went down from "impossible" to merely "highly obnoxious" and I could barely eek out contacts with stations 50 miles away. 14 MHz is pretty much never NVIS. It took hours for the ionosphere to stabilize again.