WWL from New Orleans, Louisana
- Station: WWL from New Orleans, Louisana
Band: 870 KhZ AM
Date: April 7, 2021
About: WWL (870 AM) is a U.S. radio station in New Orleans, Louisiana, owned by Audacy, Inc. The station's studios are at the 400 Poydras Tower in the New Orleans Central Business District and the transmitter site is in Estelle, Louisiana. The station has a talk radio format with sports talk at night. 870 is a clear channel frequency, operating at 50,000 watts around the clock. Its daytime signal provides at least secondary coverage to large parts of the Gulf Coast, with city-grade coverage reaching as far east as Pensacola, Florida, and as far west as Lafayette, Louisiana. It can be heard across much of the central and southern United States at night with, and with a good radio as far north as Minneapolis.
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Notes: WWL did not send a QSL card so I created an image from their Facebook page.
QSL from WRNO in Metairie, Louisiana
QSL from WRNO in Metairie, Louisiana
- Station: WRNO in Forth Worth, Texas
Band: Shortwave 7505 KhZ
Date: February 26, 2021
About: WRNO (also known as WRNO Worldwide) is a commercial shortwave radio station which began international broadcasting on February 18, 1982 and continued regular broadcasting through the early 1990s from Metairie, Louisiana, with a continuation of periodic broadcasts starting in 2009. These call letters are still in use by the New Orleans station WRNO-FM; both were founded and originally owned by Joseph Costello III.
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Notes: I mailed a reception report to WRNO in Metairie, Louisiana. They mailed back a QSL card from Forth Worth, Texas.