u/lassmanac

I was attempting to do a POTA activity last night in a south eastern area of Turkey. I hoped on 40m and found it to be absolutely dominated by what sounded like Russian operators, stations playing music, and what sounded like people reading news? Maybe? Across rhe entire band. I regret not getting a photo of the waterfall display because it was really quite impressive. Is this usual? Or was something going on?