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No fooling: this photo is a com¬ posite, but sun¬ spots may cause it to come true. ‘Hey, Ump —Throw The Bull Out!' Sunspots May Bounce TV Signals From Barcelona To The Bronx If, on your television screen, suddenly a bullfight from Barcelona should ap¬ pear in the midst of a ball game from the Bronx ... Or if the Eiffel Tower pops up in the middle of George Gobel’s “So there you are . . Blame it on the sunspots. You can expect all sorts of weird interference in your TV reception— some of it actually snatches of Euro¬ pean programs—in the months to come. For the sun is going into the climax of an 11-year cycle, when it starts acting up and breaking out in a rash. Sunspots, ranging from 1000 to 100,- 000 miles in length, appear as vast, dark areas on the sun’s face, and inevitably these spots cause magnetic storms on earth. When sunspot activity is high, there are changes in the atmospheric layers surrounding the earth. Television and shortwave radio signals can be bounced or reflected far beyond their normal range. Hence, there’s a good chance that programs from Europe will break into domestic telecasts. One expert, John H. Nelson, the Radio Corporation of America’s top wave analyst, predicts that “The high spots (of activity) will be in the days still a year or two off. Stations from foreign nations will be breaking through periodically. It will not be a constant affair, but spasmodic.” He adds that he already has detected some of these sunspots and that “We are climbing into the maximum cycle.” He says the best chances for foreign reception will be between 9 A.M. and 1 P.M. on winter days. Some TV viewers may look forward to foreign interruptions as an im¬ provement of the local scene. There are those, however, in the production and commercial end of TV who fear the interference will be a real nui¬ sance. They envision, say, a foreign program cutting in just when the hero is about to get shot. And you’ll never know what happens.