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DX from The Villages, FL

J

JH_Radio

Usually WXTB 97.9 comes in, but the other day Saturday I think it was, i was getting what sounded like a CHR/HotAC. I was just doing some pokeing around radio-locator, and I thought I rememberd hearing WR?? best mix of the 80's 90's and today. WRMF have to be it I'm thinkin. i was able to pick this up on a boombox, and mixing in with WXTB on a car radio also. Heard Holler Back Girl, and a Katy Perry song, also remember hearing moves Like Jagger. What amazes me is that on the boombox, i could null it out and get stereo reception with some static heard above the music, but a listenable signal. The Car was totaly clear when you were just in that sweet spot. So here's my question: would this be considered my first skip or would this be unbelieveable tropo? I was thinkin skip due to the fact radio-locator shows other stations in the Palm Beach area as not being super far from Miami. I've heard that Miami is pretty far from here.
On another note, I heard a 107.3 The Reach-FM comeing from someplace also here in The Villages. Anyone have any idea what that might be? I would try to find it myself, but with so many translators for networks like that that could be dificult.
Thanks
John
 
Something else i heard. 93.1 Country. this was only heard on a car radio. Deep male voice. Wensday or Thursday of last week. time 4 o'clock hour. Talking about electric cars and his opinion of them, went into a camersial break. appeared to be local. Had a hard time hearing it above whatever was mixing in. Possibly WKRO in Edgewater, FL? again would this be trop or skip?
 
John Holcomb II said:
Something else i heard. 93.1 Country. this was only heard on a car radio. Deep male voice. Wensday or Thursday of last week. time 4 o'clock hour. Talking about electric cars and his opinion of them, went into a camersial break. appeared to be local. Had a hard time hearing it above whatever was mixing in. Possibly WKRO in Edgewater, FL? again would this be trop or skip?
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Florida is a unique DX situation due to weather fronts moving in from both sides. If there has been a significant rainfall day - listen late at night - 10PM to 2AM while the atmosphere stabilizes. The whole state opens up and some amazing DX is possible.
 
Been thru the Villages. WRMF has been heard in my car from Belleview, not far away. Just good Tropo.

93.1 Country is indeed likely WKRO.

Was up there about a month ago, and in the car on 93.9 came in talk of Georgia football---the only candidate had to have been WMTM Moultrie GA.

John---if you have some money to spend, maybe you could drive about 40 miles south, to a place on US 27 called Lake Louisa State Park. Very high elevation---you might bag some AM's & FM's you'd never hear otherwise. I drove there, but we needed the money we had.... (They charge admission)

BTW from south FL this morning, surprise surprise, came seemingly out of nowhere WTVM 9 (RF ch 11) Columbus GA....keep TV & FM handy the next few days!

BTW the 107.3 Reach FM is in Deltona----not even listed on Radio-Locator; see www.reachfm.org

cd
 
The distances are too short for ES, that is just tropo. I get WRMF frequently via ES, they use their calls between songs so they are an easy one to ID. Florida is a good area for tropo because of the way its positioned out over the gulf.
 
Belleview is probably one of the bestest places to live in FL for DX. just a little further away from Orlando, and not much further away from Tampa. I think that would be a great place to DX from. I wouldn't get WXRA though which i can get here, but I think that anything else from Tampa, Jacksonville, DayTona beach, Crystal River, Gainsville, Orlando, and perhaps lakeland would likely come in, especially if the township let you put an antenna on your rooph. Then a lot of those would be daytime comeing in like locals (even though they are not), with a sullective sensative tuner that could null out stations. An antenna with roter would be great.
lol on the driving to the park to DX from. You know i would drive and pay admition to a park with a radio just so I could DX too. 40 miles in any direction from this location would yield totaly different stations. Airchecking is fun. I can't be the only one that would do that.
Streaming OTA radio is nice, but there is just something about pulling in that station on a regular radio.
 
The times I DXed from the Villages (my Folks used to live there) it was all AM DX. The FM dial was of no interest to me, sounding like the Hall & Oates of Your Life dial one time, a digital urban rodeo another, and a Music To Sniff Glue and Break Dance to on another.

You know -- just like the FM dial has sounded in every other market.

Did manage to get taped audio (not necessarily IDs) on every frequency up to about 1640, which is the limit of my GE SR II. Lol -- I was even able to get a null on WVLG 640 one night. From my Folks place (Bolivar and DelMar) their studio is a five minute walk. The tower is several miles west, though. I give the chuckle because the show I nulled to hear, probably, a bit of Cuba, was when my buddy was on the air -- Ed Newlands.

Did manage to flag a nice post-sunset listen from KYW 1060 one evening. My wife The Pooch, who's from Philly, was hollering, 'We came down here to get AWAY from there. Why are you listening to that? And how are you even GETTING that?!?'
 
Belleview is OK for DX but not exactly the hottest place for it...!

Note: Back in 1989 I wanna say, when my (now deceased) parents had a home there, I had a 1982 Honda Civic Wagon with Clarion AM/FM radio (analog/slide rule dial). Seriously, it had to have been an "even" frequency, 95.0, where I heard the word "quelque chose" (French for "something"). I was told by a member of WTFDA (right before I joined) that what I likely heard was Martinique!

Great car radio that was, too. :(

cd
 
Something interesting to note speaking of The Villages.

I'm 68 miles away in Tampa and I can't get 640 WVLG at all during the day and only extremely rarely at night.

Only once in a great while has their signal drifted in at night and I've heard KFI from 2,152 miles away come in about as many times.

While I can't hear WVLG at all here during the day behind the Cuban station, it has a pretty good signal over at the beach in Dunedin which is even more distant from The Villages at 73 miles.

:eek:
 
AFAIK, WVLG is non-directional day & night, but under 1 k; so it's interesting to read here their propagation under ND conditions.

Now to get WVLG to knock off the modern stuff.....but I am sounding like a broken record.

cd
 
How do you mean by WVLG being moddern? Though i haven't listend to them to much this year due to them playing Christmas music, last year they were a mix of AC, 50's-80's Oldies and Easy Listening over nights.
 
You can hear WVLG in the Orlando area and it has always been playing oldies or nostalgia music when I have been visiting in the area. I rather liked their "homey" format, probably because I am an old fart like the people living in The Villages.... (P.S. My sister-in-law lives there)....
 
About modern music on WVLG....I'm 52 and even have visited their studios. I think it was Robb Newton I talked with once....

I just think that they have too much 80s/90s/2000s/2010s stuff for a station like that, which I think would cater to the retirement community.

The DJs seem to be very pleasant or easygoing, and when I hear "Pocketful of Sunshine," "Kiss Me" or "Invisible Touch" like I have heard, well.....

My contention is that many FM stations in WVLG's listening area have these songs, and in stereo & CD quality. AM, if they play music, has gotta be different.

I used to aircheck WVLG when I visit the area, but outside of the overnight show, which truly is unique, I gave up....

However, I am not in da biz. So if it works for them, so be it....

cd
 
Weird .... I've tried three times to reply to John's post here, and for some reason it didn't take. So, lemme try Take IV.

My Folks used to live just off the corner of Del-Mar and Bolivar. And while on vacation in this paradise of a community, I'd always haul along the GE SR II. Once I even sent ahead one of those little FM transmitters in order that I wouldn't be cuffed and detained at some airport with it being in the luggage. It got out about one block, with the rabbit-ears antenna standing on the garage workbench about 4 feet above average terrain.

It was always AM DXing, though. The FM dial had become a numbing bore in every market by 1995 when the Folks moved there, and that broadcast ennui was no different in The Villages. I don't think I ever DXed the FM dial there.

The last full-fledged monitoring I did in The Villages was October 2009. Give you an idea of how old my Folks were : their *son* had retired by then! But while they had guests over, playing cards, I'd be out in their great-@$$ screened garage until all hours, and managed to log and tape audio on all 111 channels the GE SR II tuned. That was with WVLG 640 literally within a five-minute walk from their front door.

Their tower is west of the place, of course ; that little aerial holding up one corner of their fishbowl studio is just for show. But I managed a wicked null on them and heard audio behind them. It was probably Cuba. The chuckle there was that the null on the WVLG Oldies programming was at the expense of DJ Ed Newlands. Lol -- my buddy Big Ed had moved to Florida from Long Island not too long before. And there I was, a five-minute walk away, trying to null him into electromagnetic limbo to hear another station besides him.

And one early evening, just past a glorious sunset, before the bugs started in with their second shift, I was in a beach chair in the driveway, martini in fist, listening to KYW Philadelphia. My wife, from Philly, reprimanded me. 'We came down here a thousand miles to get AWAY from that! What are you, that homesick? And how the **** are you even GETTING them here?!?'
 
uh huh, and i replied to you steve too, but not sure if that reply worked?
I had asked if you had gotten any log of WPHT? I remember last year or was it two years ago now, I was able to get WPHT on a Sony SRF-42 walkman. I mean dude, this was a listenable signal, with some fading out.
Ed Newland. I know I have heard him last year and this past week too. At first from what I remember he was doing just fill ins. not sure if he replaced somebody or not. It appears to me that there has been some jock changes along with the new jingles that were introduced last year.
 
I could remember living in palm bay I'd get the carolinas in the summer almost every night on the fm band. WVLG has gone a bit down hill in the past 4 years that I have kept up with them but still good to listen to. I live in Altamonte and cannot hear WVLG all that well but my pl-390 does it's best to get them. At night, you can forget it. I hear some spanish station on 640. I'm guessing it's a cuban. I keep hearing spanish on 710. What is that? I hear it during the day. I'm guessing Miami. I remember last summer 93.1 from miami came in better than wkro from daytona at times.
 
austingrace said:
I could remember living in palm bay I'd get the carolinas in the summer almost every night on the fm band. WVLG has gone a bit down hill in the past 4 years that I have kept up with them but still good to listen to. I live in Altamonte and cannot hear WVLG all that well but my pl-390 does it's best to get them. At night, you can forget it. I hear some spanish station on 640. I'm guessing it's a cuban. I keep hearing spanish on 710. What is that? I hear it during the day. I'm guessing Miami. I remember last summer 93.1 from miami came in better than wkro from daytona at times.
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Your 710 is WAQI Miami in the daytime. From your area at night, likely you will hear maybe two 710's in Spanish battling it out; check 670 or 1180 for same programming as 710. If it's the same, it's Radio Rebelde in Cuba. If not, I'd say WAQI.

cd
 
OK. That 107.3 from debary has one heck of a signal for a 92 watt translator. Must be the haat of there stick. I hear them all the way in the ucf area. I get them almost crystal clear here in Altamonte on the pl390.
 
:eek:

Wow, I'm really surprised you don't get WXGL 'The Eagle' from here in Tampa instead on 107.3.

It's a great station too, BTW.
 
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