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DX from The Villages, FL

Generally, from Belleview (10 miles north of The Villages), on 107.3 one can hear both WXGL & WJGH Jax; just takes a turn of the whip, on decent Tropo enhancement days.

I think I may have heard the Reach during my drive up to Ocala---maybe in Leesburg.

cd
 
Can anybody in the area tell me if WIGW 90.3 Eustis has signed on yet? I know that 91.5 WGTT has.

cd
 
I thought I'd seen just about everything, but I never thought I'd see a thread on DX'ing from The Villages.

Not that there is anything wrong with living in, or visiting, The Villages. After all, some of my best friends (retired) are residents of The Villages.

;D
 
Icangelp said:
I thought I'd seen just about everything, but I never thought I'd see a thread on DX'ing from The Villages.

Not that there is anything wrong with living in, or visiting, The Villages. After all, some of my best friends (retired) are residents of The Villages.

;D
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Makes sense if you think about it. For one thing, it's in a great dx location - not too close to many strong signals and centrally located in Florida.

Aaaaaannnnndddd, dxing would be about the most exciting contact sport played there! :D

So, hop in your customized golf cart with the Illinois license plates and head on back to the radio shack to see if you can pull in Cuba!! ;D
 
The only strong signals here are:
89.5 WKSG
92.9 WMFQ
93.7 WOGK
94.5 WCFB
98.5 WKTK (though have gotten 98.3 WWRZ at times)
99.7 W259AS (though i've gotten both 99.5 WQYK and 99.9 WGNE as 99.7 is stronger at the town squares .
101.9 WJHM
102.3 WTRS
105.9 WOCL
106.7 WXXL
107.7 WMGF
 
I remember driving past the exits on I-75 for the Villages early one morning and got Beaumont TX 560 instead of the Miami 560. Never got KLVI? again.
 
vibe said:
I remember driving past the exits on I-75 for the Villages early one morning and got Beaumont TX 560 instead of the Miami 560. Never got KLVI? again.
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In south FL in the 1970s, when WQAM was off the air on Sunday nights, KLVI was the dominant one---I don't think I heard any other 560's out of the US.

There used to be a 560 in Jamaica (which went all-FM now, if I am correct) that I could hear under WQAM (I live 22 miles NW of Miami); I remember the one night in what had to be the early 90s when WQAM was giving updates to a big heavyweight boxing bout (I remember that LaLonde was one of the boxers), but the Jamaica 560 was actually giving blow-by-blow commentary!!

cd
 
nope. not this far south. Closer to the other end of Ocala you'd get that.
Here its Orlando's WOMX (105.1), and i've never gotten 105.3 even as a DX here.
Perhaps if you wwent just a bit north even say in Belleview, you'd [pull in 105.1 and 105.3 both fading and weak.
 
vibe said:
I remember driving past the exits on I-75 for the Villages early one morning and got Beaumont TX 560 instead of the Miami 560. Never got KLVI? again.
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KLVI goes for the Houston audience 80 miles away - and succeeds. No doubt they have an excellent transmitter site with good ground radials.
 
I've gotten both wxgl and wjgh here in altamonte. It just takes the right conditions to make them over power 107.3 the reach fm station.
 
rbrucecarter5 said:
vibe said:
I remember driving past the exits on I-75 for the Villages early one morning and got Beaumont TX 560 instead of the Miami 560. Never got KLVI? again.
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KLVI goes for the Houston audience 80 miles away - and succeeds. No doubt they have an excellent transmitter site with good ground radials.
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Out at the beach on the Gulf in west central Florida daytime, I get two other stations behind WQAM on 560.

I listened and listened and listened when I was there but could never get any IDs.
 
That is interesting. The last time I was in Ocala - which was several years ago - I remember seeing a billboard for Kiss. It might have been a bit north of Ocala, but I remember it being near the city. I also remember it being on US-441.

John Holcomb II said:
nope. not this far south. Closer to the other end of Ocala you'd get that.
Here its Orlando's WOMX (105.1), and i've never gotten 105.3 even as a DX here.
Perhaps if you wwent just a bit north even say in Belleview, you'd [pull in 105.1 and 105.3 both fading and weak.
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from my travels, its been the other end of Ocala closer to Gainsville you'd get Kiss.
As I understand it, Ocala is spread pretty far out. This end is closer to Orlando (though the Orlando stations would be weaker on this end)
 
That makes sense. Some of those Orlando stations are powerhouses. WOMX can be heard well down I-95. I have picked it up in Port St. Lucie.
 
I was one of a group of people who were looking to put an LPFM in the Villages back when the first window opened. The FCC channel finder had something like seven available frequencies for the place. I distinctly remember one being 102.7.

This, in a state with a lot of 100,000 watters!

But the Villages was already in the process of buying WHOF Wildwood to use for their radio outlet. The community already had a TV station and their own newspaper.

Sure enough : When the Florida filing window opened, someone in the Villages applied for 102.7. It was the Villages itself. Someone (not I :- ) dropped a half-buck on them to the FCC. The application was turned down because of the TV-newspaper ownership restrcitions in the FCC's LPFM rules.

When the new window opens (supposedly Spring 2012 at the earliest) I'm certain one of those half-dozen or so frequencies will be scrutinized and sought. If not ALL of them.

Nowadays, though, the theoretical tower site will have to be located somewhat south and west of the original Spanish Springs downtown to cover the whole Villages area. Lol -- back when a good starting point of the Villages had been established, there wasn't even a Spanish Springs downtown! They built that public square area *after* a good deal of residential settlement had taken root around the Winn-Dixie and the Publix on 441.

So a Villages LPFM in 2012 would reach maybe four times the number of people it would've reached just ten years ago. Should be an interesting scuffle. Might be a good idea to find a real good format hole for the market first.

Maybe The Standards again? Maybe even back to the WHOF hillbilly & brimstone days?
 
I remember 103.3 that aired commerce stuff, and stuff from the daily sun. I haven't heard it in years. I also think I remember seeing a 104.5 in The Villages that has been n not on the air, that is on radio-locator.
 
That 103.3 relayed VNN (Villages News Network?), a cable access channel using ch 2. IIRC, their calls were WVLG-LP!

cd
 
Yep. WVLG-LP is what i thought I rememberd. It was a mono feed with not the best audio in the world. I'm surprised it was aloud to be on the air as 103.1 WLOQ (Now WHKQ) can be heard here.
 
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