WTRS

[JH_Radio]

I know this station is mostly mainstream country now, btubt but weren't they classic country years ago?
I remember when i first came to FL in 2004. I believe TRS was classic country at that point. If they did change, why the change?

 

[jmtillery]

I know this station is mostly mainstream country now, btubt but weren't they classic country years ago?
I remember when i first came to FL in 2004. I believe TRS was classic country at that point. If they did change, why the change?

WTRS was never classic country as a format although it did play a limited selection of classic country in the overall formatic mix.

 

[cd637299]

I'm not a country music fan....but for those who are, could anyone in the market fill me in on the differences in the music of WTRS, WOGK & WRUF-FM?

And what "void" did WRUF-FM fill that the other two missed out on? Obviously they did something that seemed to fool everybody who thought the change from rock would hurt it.

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[jmtillery]

WTRS is more contemporary hit based country or Hot Country while WOGK is more traditional in its presentation interspersed with a classic country mix along with current music.

As for WRUF, the only void it filled is being a local Gainesville country music station, replacing the former WYGC. WRUF does not have the signal to effectively compete with WOGK and WTRS in order to attract any meaningful listening audience in Ocala. However, Country 103.7 The Gator appears to do fairly well with the local Gainesville country music listeners. WRUF's music is virtually the same as WTRS, being a hit based country music outlet for Gainesville while WTRS fills that same void in Ocala. WOGK covers Ocala and Gainesville with the traditional country music presentation.

 

[cd637299]

WTRS is more contemporary hit based country or Hot Country while WOGK is more traditional in its presentation interspersed with a classic country mix along with current music.

As for WRUF, the only void it filled is being a local Gainesville country music station, replacing the former WYGC. WRUF does not have the signal to effectively compete with WOGK and WTRS in order to attract any meaningful listening audience in Ocala. However, Country 103.7 The Gator appears to do fairly well with the local Gainesville country music listeners. WRUF's music is virtually the same as WTRS, being a hit based country music outlet for Gainesville while WTRS fills that same void in Ocala. WOGK covers Ocala and Gainesville with the traditional country music presentation.

Thank you.

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[JH_Radio]

Being in The Villages, we're inbetween markits, so we get served by 5 country outlets here.
92.3 WWKA/Orlando
93.7 WOGK (strongest)
97.5 WPCV/Winter Haven
102.3 WTRS
103.7 WRUF
John

 

[jmtillery]

Being in The Villages, we're inbetween markits, so we get served by 5 country outlets here.
92.3 WWKA/Orlando
93.7 WOGK (strongest)
97.5 WPCV/Winter Haven
102.3 WTRS
103.7 WRUF
John

You are located in a very unique geographical area where you have excellent radio reception of muliple stations from multiple markets.

 

[JH_Radio]

Belleview may be a slightly better area yet.
Excelent? hardly. DX heaven. a great way to get a lot of stations (since you are not aloud to put an antenna on your rooph) for me is to have a 6-foot tellascoping antenna on a boombox pointed tward my rooph.
however, for DX, it is wonderful! Actually for daytime listening, Ocala (as in 92.9 WMFQ and 93.7 WOGK) is the best markit, folowed by certain stations mostly in Orlando. if not for a great antenna, you'll get
94.5 WCFB
98.5 WKTK
99.7 W259AS
101.9 WJHM
102.3 WTRS
105.9 WOCL
106.7 WXXL
and 107.7 WMGF.
Its that great antenna or being willing to put up with less than ideal conditions in the car that you can pull in a lot of other stuff.

 

[cd637299]

Sorry to wander, but since we are talking about DX in that market....

Back around 1989 in Belleview (where my mom & dad lived), I actually got some e-skip on a split frequency, 95.0, hearing only the French word "quelque chose" or the English "something". I wrote WTFDA to ask about it, and they told me it was likely Martinique, w/ 50 watts.

This was on my Clarion analog car radio! How I miss that radio for the auto.....

Oh yes....Belleview is good for e-skip when the time is ripe. I used to be busy there @ Mom & Dad's....Dad even put up a temporary antenna for me. Miss him and Mom

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[JH_Radio]

I've never gotten E-skip.
Here in The Villages, I've gotten 103.1 WWOF (Country) over the semilocal WHKQ (at that time WLOQ.) it came in pretty good too... Recorded on cassette and converted to MP3.
enjoy this aircheck
http://www.sendspace.com/file/nevpvb

 

[radioboy]

WWOF is in Tallahassee and runs at 42,000 watts. Pretty good DX catch in the Villages.

 

[JH_Radio]

Also from that markit, I've gotten 94.9 WTNT (Country) and classic rock "Golf 104" (unsure of the calls but I think its WGLF) over semilocal WTKS.

 

[cd637299]

Also from that markit, I've gotten 94.9 WTNT (Country) and classic rock "Golf 104" (unsure of the calls but I think its WGLF) over semilocal WTKS.

It was quite possible for me to hear WWOF from Levy Park near Yankeetown....I think I heard it & the 102.3 R&B out of the same area once from Clearwater or St. Pete. From Honeymoon Island 2 weeks ago, the only 103.1 w/ C&W was WIRK. Go figure.

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[JH_Radio]

Crystal River is good for DX, too I'd think.

 

[Kmagrill]

As a teenager, I used to marvel at the number of DX FM and TV stations I could get while visiting my grandfather in Yankeetown. The west coast of Florida has always been a pretty good spot for DX. There were also days when I could use my 1 Watt, 2-meter walkie-talkie to hit repeaters in North Carolina and Texas at the same time.

 

[cd637299]

As a teenager, I used to marvel at the number of DX FM and TV stations I could get while visiting my grandfather in Yankeetown. The west coast of Florida has always been a pretty good spot for DX. There were also days when I could use my 1 Watt, 2-meter walkie-talkie to hit repeaters in North Carolina and Texas at the same time.

Wow....!

Levy Park in Y'town is the only place I've ever caught WVOG 600 as DX. Nice park there too.

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[JH_Radio]

Rob Steward was doing afternoons as late as last year on WTRS. What happend to him? he was funny.
Steve ?? i think was doing the 7P-12A shift too. before they put in the big time. Local is still dieing. Sad.
John

 

[Poledo]

We get plenty of skip every year up here in Pensacola.
Most common would be stations from West Texas, unknown parts of Mexico, and Ontario... but I've probably pulled in every state east of the Rockies with the exception of several New England states. It amazing how many Canadian stations, even stations from a couple hundred miles north of the border, that show down here.
When the skip opens up it isn't uncommon to pull in the same stations from 1000 miles away constantly for several days.
Also, intense skip tends to take out the 50kw and 100kw stations first leaving only 1 or 2 local class A stations with listenable signals. I guess short towers are good for some situations.

I believe I've read that some Houston/Galveston stations have backup facilities on short towers that they switch to when tropo kicks off the main 100kw signal.

 

[JH_Radio]

Is the skip so good that you could record an unscoped 60 minute or so aircheck?

 

[Poledo]

I've heard skip here where I listened to the Texas/Canadian stations for up to 30 minutes strait before getting bored... The stations seems to stick around for days, so I believe 1 hour of continuous unscoped stereo recording would indeed be possible. I've had friends that recorded Canadian FMs and sent the tapes to the Canadian stations and got boxes of swag in return. I don't know how long those recordings were. I've never even thought about going through the trouble. If it were the 1980's or 1990's and radio stations still had DJs and request lines I might have called up Toronto and made a request from a listener down on Pensacola Beach... but today they'd just assume I was listening to an Internet stream.

I've heard so much DX/tropo/skip in my life that I now find it somewhat annoying rather than interesting. I've only picked up 2 or 3 good stations on Skip (one from Ohio and another from Missouri I think). Mostly typical CHR/Country/CBC/Spanish type stuff skips in.