Broadcast is not dead yet, but nearly dead. Unless you want to listen to some fringe propaganda from Cuba or North Korea. Amateur band, as advised above can compensate for the loss and is a lot of fun.
As with Hi-Fi speakers, where room is more important, antenna is more important with SW Radio, I have witnessed tremendous results with a 1928 radio connected to a nice circuit.
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here is something from "stuff seen" department:
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AM receivers, best I ever worked with was a Collins 51-S1, from Midway Island to Oklahoma City, KOMA 1520 ON THE AM DIAL. About 4500 miles. Don;t know what radio gear the airplane had, but during Viet Nam,, at 35,000 feet with a trailing wire antenna dragging along, we received San Francisco, when Bobby Kennedy was shot. This was not SSB, but AM. About 7500 miles. Learned an early lesson, height was everything when it came to antennas. Length also helped. At Midway, we had real long wire antennas, than ran from the ops hanger to a real far off water tower. Used for contacting DEW line aircraft all over the Pacific. After that, it was all downhill on antenna designs.