I recall when i was living in a semi - rural area in WA state in mid 1990s. There was a 3 day power outage and on a transistor portable with short wire antenna, i cd hear a "Lowfer" LF beacon at abt 40 miles away. Normally unreadable.

I was just looking last nite at the paper QST mag, kind of a trial period, for me, to see if it's worth it to me, and i see some ad for a linear that sez ambient noise levels are so high now that you need a linear; your 100 w. PEP rig won't cut it. Well, "maybe", sez I.

Decades ago, inspired by a QST article and an old time radio book, i assembled the "NAA receiver". This was nothing but a single triode regen with a good sized coil for VLF. I had a QSL from NPM Hawaii, 500,000 watts. It was signed "Lt. L. G. Rawlins" and thanked me for the report. I'm not really now convinced this reception report was all that useful to them. This was the years when these Navy stations were sending perfect CW code groups, super good CW practice at around 22 wpm, before they went to RTTY.

Purge' i threw out my QSL collection including nice So. American station pennants. How i wd love to have all that stuff now !! Beware of anyone, guru, political leader, Party Line, of your own thinning out instinct that tells you a Cultural Purge us called for. Let it rest for a good while before you do anything rash you might later regret.