Ken in Michigan used this 1950s vintage Hammarlund HQ-150 receiver into a more modern notebook PC for successful decoding of  VOA Radiogram, 17 November 2013, 0230-0300 UTC on 5745 kHz:

Marco, near Rome, used this 1980s vintage Sony ICF-2001D into a Dell notebook, with homebrew magnetic loop antenna, 50cm each side, 5-70pF tuning capacitor, 10pF series capacitor, tuned for 17860 kHz: