Yeah I may be in to close to hear it on my vertical...
Shouldn't be too close. At 2 watts it puts a pretty decent signal into the Great Lakes Listening Post during the day, which is about the same distance from here to you, except to the southeast. All they got for an antenna at that station is one of those little PA0RDT Mini Whips, which is basically a powered antenna in a PVC can and it's no bigger than a ball point pen. Otherwise there's 7-8 of us (depending on the day) on that frequency exchanging messages back and forth during the day at distances anywhere from 7 miles to 250 miles away up in the Michigan UP, and one in Ontario, Canada. All of us are using verticals of one type or another, except for the closest station to me that's 7 miles away is using an inverted V 40m dipole.
