No transmitting ability here on 630-M but 474.2 KHz WSPR reception is excellent this week. Midwestern reporters are printing quite a few Europeans... EI0, DK, GM. Ground at my Missouri QTH is covered with a foot of fresh snow right now. Don't know if that helps. Also hearing KL7 and KH6 occasionally this week.
My usual receiving antenna is an E-Probe up 30' on a pole about 25' out from the house. After testing the E-Probe for a year I can say it hears well, as reported on WSPR. If hams within a few hundred miles of me are reporting DX, I can *usually* print it too. A few deep rural neighbors usually hear a few dB better than I do.