Building isn't metal. All sided with 1" hemlock boards and insulated with 2" polyI. Metal roof, though.
I'm on the side of a mountain top and don't get any direct radio waves. 1/4 mile away, in the valley, I would. Valley runs all the way to Albany.
The radio station is supposed be one of the super-power "Clear-Channel" stations. I have no idea though, if they power down at night, or not. But, I only get the drift between 8 and 11 PM. Then it comes in very clear again - all night if I had the energy to stay up. There's been a few times I've been up to 3 in the morning working on tractors - and radio was coming in perfectly after the ionospheric "bounce time."
I have not tried any sort of external antenna yet at my shop. I DO have one at the house hooked to a 1940s era Crosley tube radio. Just a 50 foot wire. It works good most of the time but always drifts a bit. But, that's what the old radios did anyway. I guess a real test would be to hook one of these modern radios to that wire antenna - at night, if I ever get around to it.
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