I was out about an hour after my last post, about two hours ago, and I was able to detect my test target but it was weak.
You need to remember the Kp index is just a forecast. It is not a record of what the conditions are or were, and conditions are like the weather--it can be raining but across the street it is sunshine. So it is unwise to go by what it says. You just have check and see what conditions are. And it's a good bet they will change. In case you don't know, admissions to metal hospitals goes up during solar storms. In some European countries they isolate patients in magnetically shielded rooms. The changing magnetic conditions can cause people to hallucinate and other maladies like epileptic seizures. I suspect there might be a few victims here LOL. It doesn't take a massive storm to affect people. Even tiny changes in the frequencies can mimick the brain's frequencies and raise all kinds of Hell.
Earlier today I tried four different times and it was not there. It was about daybreak I got what I thought was a good signal but it was not the target. I even took a passive LRL rod and there was absolutely nothing.