[R-390] What do we listen to?

[2002tii]

Roger wrote:

>My R390 still pulls more signals out of the air than I want to 
>listen to any time.

Therein lies a real problem, though I suspect in a different sense 
than originally intended.  I find there is almost nothing I care to 
listen to on the air anymore.  Ironic, since I'm in a better position 
than I've ever been in to receive what's there.

Hams are either contesting, going on ad nauseum about their equipment 
(99.8% of which is store-bought), or railing about politics, 
conspiracy theories, or religion.  I've heard some hams actually 
broadcasting unapologetically.  (I was taught lo those many years ago 
that all of these topics were out of bounds, and certainly that one 
would lose one's license for broadcasting.  Anyway, I don't give a 
fig for what someone in Tennessee with an Icom [or a blowhard in 
Maine with a converted broadcast transmitter] thinks about any of 
it.)  MW has all been taken over by talk, sports, and religion, and 
IBOC sidebands have made most of them unlistenable.  SW broadcast is 
shrinking by the day as more and more broadcast services leave the 
air or serve only the third world, leaving the bands to the religious 
broadcasters (and US-based SW religious broadcasters are 
proliferating and blotting out most of what is left).  And I can only 
listen to so many utility stations.  Frankly, it's gotten to the 
point for me that it's much more fun to watch the bands on a spectrum 
analyzer than to listen to them.

So, what do people here listen to, anyway?

Best regards,

Don