Dr John Smith told me about these types of receivers, so I thought I'd build the bare-bones-basic one.
Unfortunately it's not possible to use it anywhere near urbanised areas due to the 50Hz mains interference 'hum' that swaps out mother nature.
Though I did manage to test it successfully many hundreds of kilometers away from the city. After rolling out the long loop of antenna wire I heard the crackling of lightening all around the globe! No whistlers though :(