Went for a drive, 6 miles on about 4-5 Watts or something like that, maybe 2W radiated.

I am very surprised, the hard work does pay off.

Who knows maybe there will be a lot more interest, the other thing is the signal stays solid and you get local bursts of interference
every now and then, and it drops out and comes back totally different propagation.

Those longer waves certainly bend around things.