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540 WFLF

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I am curious where 540 WFLF's sinal can be recieved. The radio-locator lists it as far away as Mussell Shoals, Al and Key West in Fla. How is the signal in Southwest Fla and Ft Walton Beach?
 
It came in OK all the way down to Fort Myers, FL during the daytime, though it was best on I-75 and not as good against the electrical interference that you get on surface streets when so far from Orlando. Based on that, I would think that it would do ok along the Gulf Coast on the panhandle where some of 540's path would be over salt water.
 
WFLF doesn't throw a lot of its signal to the north. I recall it as being audible right along the panhandle beaches, but not very listenable. The combination of a fairly restrictive DA and the lousy ground conductivity of Central Florida results in this being not quite the blowtorch one might expect from 50KW at 540.
 
It's listenable in the Englewood -Venice FL area but some electrical interference inhibits the signal. Better at the beach with the engine off but I'm usually trying to DX better catches. My son said he got this station (which was one of his presets) while driving in southside VA sometime just after local sunrise.
 
Weak but listenable on a car radio in Biloxi, MS. I lived there before Katrina and had WFLF as my first AM preset.
 
When it was still WGTO I pulled it OK in Macon, GA. Pretty well all over the Peninsula. I've heard it's been heard in Cuba (at least as WGTO..not sure how the pattern has changed to be an orlando move-in.
 
When it was WGTO (Gulf To Ocean), the studios were on the grounds of Cypress Gardens if I recall correctly. In the early 1980's, seems I saw into the studio window & the equipment was bordering on antique. Station has come a long way in 25 years...I have heard it in Key West.
 
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