On 23/01/2016 16:16, Michael Black wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Spike wrote:

[1] Never been a sunspot max like it since, and not likely to be. US
AM stations were wall-to-wall on 10m, and I enjoyed listening to RSA
on 25.800 Mc/s.

And coincidentally, mid-1957 through mid-1958 was "International
Geophysical Year", which included study of the ionosphere.

Pure fantasy, of course, but it seems like having had its parameters
scrutinised as never before, it went into a sulk from which it has yet
to recover!


--
Spike

"They thought that because they had power, they had wisdom"

- with apologies to Stephen Vincent Benet