Serious question. I’m in the Midwest. What’s left to listen to on shortwave, because I’m sick of preachers.
I have a Sony ICF 2010, which I’ve had for decades, recently had it refurbished with new transistors and caps, also have a couple of different Tecsun models and a Malachite SDR and a somewhat decent powered loop antenna mounted in our bedroom window.
When I first got into shortwave decades ago with the Sony ICF I used to find all kinds of interesting programming from all over the world - first heard Bobby McFerrin on the BBC. Canada and Cuba and Mexico, no problem. Number stations all over the bandwidth.
Now it seems all I find are preachers, and particularly virulent ones at that, shouting hell fire & damnation over multiple frequencies. When it’s not one of them it’s a weak foreign language broadcast I can’t understand. Not much else, at least not content that can be discussed here.
Then in the evenings the entire shortwave spectrum is flooded by a local AM station that has a tower a few miles north of here, so the hours when I might actually be able to find some interesting content are pretty much ruined.
This is really annoying because I love, or used to love anyway, the whole shortwave experience. It seems like anymore the only way I can find anything worth listening to is to stream from a web-based SDR, and that’s not really the kind of shortwave experience I prefer.