Borderhunter had something going on with his audio, either rf getting into the audio chain, or perhaps he was just too close to the mic. Here he is a while ago, sounding much better:
As far as antenna's go, I've been real happy with my horizontal full wave 80 meter loop. I use it on the 10-80 meter ham bands, and chasing pirates & numbers stations and it does a great job at only about 25 ft up.