This popped up on reddit today. It’s apparently a little-known sub about how to listen to any radio broadcast with a $2 USB tuner. OP says we can listen to air traffic control, shortwave from around the world, the magnetic storms on Jupiter, etc.
I don’t know if it’ll be useful to us, and it’s a bit over my head, but I thought I’d pass it along, just in case. Never know, maybe someone can at least have fun with a new hobby.
And here’s an example of HAM groups doing monitoring of signals. I like the notes like “Mysterious oscillations on 28000 kHz. I found mysterious and unstable oscillations on 28000 kHz on June 20th at 0711 utc. The direction was about 60 deg. from DL. Purpose unknown.”