Maybe HAARP shakin things up a bit?

"tommyknocker" wrote in message

For a week now most stations on shortwave seem to be just below the
intelligibility threshold. It's not just the ones I tune into
regularly, like Spain (which hasn't come in readable since last
Tuesday), I was DXing 60m around 1530 UTC this morning (January 19)
and I was getting a lot of All India Radio relays, except I couldn't
make out the words, even when Passport says they're in English! Not
only that, I've been having reception problems with Lo-VHF TV (US
channels 2-6, about 60-88 Mhz) that started around the same time.
It's not a manmade sounding noise, it's just LOUD background static.
I tried walking around with my portable and nothing stood out as an
obvious noisemaker. Any ideas?