So would Tony Romo . <| sep |> Wait , what ? I ' m not trying to sound snarky but at my school teachers have admin assignments teaching duties . I notice that teachers and custodians are the first to arrive and last to leave . Every . Day . Admins at least in my school put out fires all day . They don ' t have to plan lessons , grade etc . The day literally ends at 330 for them . OK , once in a while they have to create a PD centered on the current educational buzzword . But making 6 figures for a 7 hour day does not equate to what teachers do , Especially special Ed teachers who drown in inane paperwork and teach five different subjects . What am I missing ? <| sep |> i see you guys , it ' s boring . <| sep |> Best way is with a fairly sensitive shortwave radio with the right coverage and SSB reception , and a big wire antenna . I used a fullwave loop stretched around the lot and an Icom R 75 but you can do it with a single long wire and a portable receiver . Ive heard about a certain Tecsun model that ' s a good entrylevel receiver but I ' m on my phone at the moment . I ' m in the bay area , so what I was hearing even in a somewhat radionoisy environment was mostly very faint whispers in Filipino , probably fishermen with lowerpowered transceivers . I could also hear several Korean coastal Morse stations broadcasting their wheels a repeating message announcing that they ' re listening and calling for any ships with messages to transmit . The last operating coast station like that in the US , KPH , closed in 1997 , but the folks at the Maritime Radio Historical Society have restored it and its 50 sera RCA transmitters to operating condition they bring it up , along with an amateur station using the latemodel commercial transmitters , most Saturdays , and once a year they have an event called Night of Nights where they bring the entire station online , staffed with radiotelegraph operators some of whom used to work at KPH and operate as they once did when it was known as the Wireless Giant of the Pacific . I managed to make it there for the last Night of Nights , and I took a of the transmitter gallery I ' m rather proud of . Edit that radio I mentioned is the Tecsun PL 660 .