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Lots of great stuff here. Good long wire with lightning arrester and nice big knife switch to disconnect when not using it is great. Yep, a good ground helps if you are using a transformer set. Of course you will pull in many more stations at night whatever you do.

I have a 2' X 2' tuned loop (lots of stuff on the web,) and I can pull in a station or at least a carrier on just about every channel after sunset with a good but not outstanding Philco "Portable" from 1946. I use a sensing loop to hook up with the Fisher 80 "Boss."

There are a lot of stations and resources that have web presence and you can always get a little modulator to safely send the signal to your radios in the house.

Great hobby and passtime, but probably not going to last another generation, be happy.