On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:10:22 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

I just pulled out my SWL logs from that time and the QSL cards are
from all over the planet.

I got my ham license in 1957 when I was 12 years old. I remember
coming home from school at lunch time in 1958 and hearing west coast
and european stations on the 6 meter band as loud as the locals, all
due to high sun spot levels of course.

Here's another datapoint for the greate climate debate of 2007, this
one from a professor at MIT:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17997788/site/newsweek/