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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn
If your buildings are metal siding it's almost like being inside a Faraday cage with all the interference being emitted from internal wiring along with the radio signals. What you really need is a long outdoor antenna(as far from building wiring as possible) with a shielded lead in.
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I have/had a working solution for buildings like that, however I never did try to figure out how it worked. Being in buildings that were dead zones for AM/FM (or even cell service) I had used strong magnets to connect radio antennas to metal parts of the building, or next to the steel support beams in the walls. The type of magnets used were just ones from old/busted speakers.
Prior to the digital switchover for OTA television, I had used hard drive magnets on analog TV tuner antennas. This does not work for digital OTA that I can tell.