Might be good for AM band DX though.
It's not bad now, sometimes when 104.7 FM here in Pittsburgh has Pirate games on, they put Michael Savage on after the game and that usually pre-empts the first hour of George Noory. Well, I then use my old 8 transistor Magnavox from 1965 to listen to him out of Youngstown, OH on 570 kc (WKBN). However, many a night, I hear "Radio Reloj" in Cuba "walking over" WKBN's signal so I turn to his affiliates out of Cleveland, Richmond, VA, Windsor, ON, etc. The little "Maggie" in a good radio, once got a 1000 watt station out of Texas on it.
There is a study done where what would happen under a sunspot minimum with radio, some say long distance communications might only be possible at night on the lower shortwave or medium frequency bands, you's be lucky to be able to get long distance on the 80 meter ham radio band (3500 - 4000 kilocycles), some say lower than that around 1800 - 2000 kilocycles, the amateur 160 meter band just above the AM band. Some even say 1200 kilocycles in the AM band itself. I have a link to the website about a book where a West Virginia town gets sent back in time and place to 1632 Germany during the Thirty Years War where this has been discussed.
RF Environment in 1632
One more thing, I do remember talking to some “old-timers” who lived in Alaska back in the 1830’s and 1940’s where they remember radio stations always saying that “we will bring you the news and music as conditions permit” since the Northern Lights sometimes interfered with AM radio.
Think of the cost to future generations of amateur radio enthusiasts! You guys are so, like prescient...
We need action now. I'm thinking maybe a cap and trade system on Hydrogen so we can conserve Protons for injection into the Ionosphere!