[Radioroslyn]

Nick is right. What you have there looks like to the radio is a big long skinny capacitor. Generally speaking an BC frequencies the longer and higher (like up in the trees) the better. The slingshot is your friend. 10' isn't much of at antenna as things go. Some sets have a scale measured it meters like 200-500m. That how long your ant would need to be to be resonant at the BC band. That's 500 mtrs long at the low end of the BC band. 50 or 100' is good and away from power lines. With something like that your be able to pickup all over the states at night. We are coming into the Summer months and propagation will be down a bit and static will be up. Conditions get better in the Fall though Spring.
Terry