Deutsche Welle is one of the better broadcasters. BBC isn’t too bad if you can stand their “broadcast voice”. (Somebody must train them to speak that way.)
Music is almost always distorted in my experience.
If you have any language abilities, shortwave broadcasts can be good practice because most announcers speak distinctly. You can train your ear. (Probably why BBC announcers speak that way so they can be understood by WOGS.)
Cuban and other communist broadcasts I found amusing.
Yup.
I’m finding that out now. It’s gonna take a while for me to get my ears.
Fortunately, the radio has a headphone jack and it’s much clearer using the headphones...
but that ain’t saying much!
I was surprised I added about ten feet of wire to the antenna and it VASTLY improved the number of stations.
Seems to be alot of just data-type signals, and various oddities.
The funniest one is Irans "Voice of Justice"
They make Voice of Russia sound "fair and balanced" L0L
The most grating thing is the way they are trained (as you say) to drop their voice inflection at the end of a sentence half as far as normal.