cheap 433 module - antenna please? Is this a waste of time?

A few hundred meters. Enough. We didn't measure it. The receiver was at foot of the hill and transmitter could go just beyond it.

"1-3 feet is not a good distance to do too many things with." No, but that was the size of my table and USB cables. I plan to connect one of them to some processor board and take it further away. "When I have time" "any day now"