I think about a dirt cheap LPAM TX ground. Does anyone know whether a bit of old CB antenna piece of say 80cms of aluminium
tube with a copper wire coming from it would be best buried horizontally at 8 inches deep or pounded into the ground by 70cms vertically.

Also I imagine the shortest possible copper wire to the ground on TX would be best i.e. don't put the buried metal 3m away and run a 3 m copper wire over the lawn.

Sorry for silly newb questions.

I appreciate this is a compromise either way but just wondered.

I made my first MW transmission... about 100m with very bad sound quality and problems.

Things.... can only get better.......

I am struggling in a sea of tangled long copper wires and very little to show for it.

I hammered a bit of copper pipe 1M into the ground.

I have a tapped coil now so might be able to get a better match.. it is very labour intensive radio for 100m flea transmission.

I would like to make a Sandpaper 27 antenna like that zozo guy. They don't make them any more.

I think the problem is the current centre is on the ground, that might be ok in a field with 80 x 45m long radials.

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.