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Good Rock Stations in Ocala, Florida

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gamefreak

A friend of mine travels to Ocala daily and was looking for a rock station with a good signal.

WHHZ 100.5 has a really crappy signal. (Thanks to its transmitter out of Gilchrist County.) A majority of Gainesville stations do not have signals that cover Ocala adequently.  WXTB out of Tampa has a very solid signal but even that starts dying out the closer you get to the I-75 underpass on SR 200. ( Due to just plain distance from the transmitter.)

WRUF had a fairly good signal thoughout most of the drive from my house(Citrus County) to Ocala. However now that station is airing Country. (Which is stupid considering the market is already dominated by WOGK.)

I know of WJRR out of Orlando but the signal would probaly be worse than the 2 mentioned above. Considering you have to be out towards Leesburg to even recieve a 60DBu signal.
 
Have you tried out Fmfool.com to get signal strength listings for your area. I find that in car listening starts to get bad at around -60 to -65 dBm under dead band conditions. It can also depend on whether you are on open highway or downtown near buildings. I know Fmfool takes into account elevations, hills, valleys, etc but probably not buildings. With a fixed position receiver I can go down to around -80 to -85 dBm with a decent antenna under dead band conditions. But I'm also from a rural area so Im used to hearing some static every now and then, and some people may consider a bad signal to be at a different dBm level.

It looks like WJRR and WHHZ have around -66 to -67 dBm signal in Ocala according to Fmfool.com. Meaning they are going to provide you with poor regular reception in a car. To make things even more complicated since you are in Florida near the Gulf you get quite a bit of tropo. That means some days these stations will come in super strong and some days they will have their regular marginal signals.

Even Fmfool.com can have its flaws. The best way to check signals is to scan the FM band on multiple days and figure out which stations really come in the best. You can also take advantage of tropo to listen to normally poor signal stations.
 
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