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Talk to the ham radio guys like me who operate (or operated) VHF/UHF weak signal.

At 433 that's pretty close to the 432.1 band some of us use.

Its possible for sunspots to really mess with HF and lower VHF like the 50 MHz 6M band but way off for 432.

Sunspot correlation with sporadic E (bouncing off the ionosphere) is common up to 50 MHz and drops off rather fast. I've made hundreds, thousands of contacts on 6M sporadic E but precisely one in my entire ham radio career on 2M which is 144 mhz pretty far from 432.

What does mess with vaguely 2M and up including 432 is tropospheric ducting. Basically a weather front or extreme fog makes a poor waveguide out of itself. Its somewhat location dependent.

One 70 cm band specific problem that could affect 433 mhz unlicensed stuff in a local area might be (legal ham radio) experiments with wide band ATV using a channel that overlaps the unlicensed band. That has nothing to do with sunspots.



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