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WRNO Worldwide

There is more signs that WRNO Worldwide is preparing to go on the Air. There has been a few more posts thai indicates that WRNO Worldwide Shortwave Station is in the process of doing testing. Some of you Louisianans may be familiar with what is going on but if you can update the following report I will pass it on to Glenn Hauser and we can pass it on to the Shortwave Listening public around the world. This is from DX Listeners Digest 8-083. The following is a report from an Engineer who works at one of the TV stations in Boston and was at the WRNO Worldwide location in Louisiana a year and a half ago:

This is from DX Listeners Digest 8-083.

Glenn: Did WRNO move the transmitter antenna location???? I visited
the old site a few years ago and the main lobe was pointed into a BIG
subdivision!!!! LESS THAN 100 feet. Regards (David Frantz, TN, WWRB,
July 19, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dan, Got this inquiry from Dave Frantz at WWRB. I haven`t heard of any
change, and my impression is that it is the same site as before. What
say you? Tnx for the monitoring reports. 73, (Glenn to Dan Brown, via
DXLD)

Hi Glenn: I do not think so. When I saw the TCI Log Periodic antenna
at WRNO's transmitter site near New Orleans about a year and a half
ago the feedpoint was at the rear of the property, right near (within
a few hundred feet) where a new subdivision had grown up since they
went off the air years ago. The wide open part of the Log was toward
the street aimed towards a large group of trees across the street.

This site is near the WWL AM transmitter site across and down the
street a ways. My guess is Larry the engineer will be passing a lot of
ferrite RFI filters out and there may even be vandalism to the
transmitter building or antenna due to the interference. This is why
they wanted to put up a new fence around the property before going on
the air. The direction of the antenna will have little effect on the
blanket of RFI that will be created in the area anyway.

I think it'd be very hard to physically move the antenna and am
guessing the FCC historical records of direction angle should indicate
it is probably still always where it has been. My guess is the TCI LP
is still where it was originally built, I believe aimed to the
northeast and thus "the Middle East" over the North Pole as I
distantly remember.

But then I have not been there in a year and a half and maybe they had
some weird reason to move it, which would require a total dismantling
and re-erection of the antenna after the towers were moved.

The transmitter building is the same old building. The transmitter is
a new Elcor 50 kW (old style plate modulated class C, not PDM or high
efficiency) rig. Doesn't sound bad though. I emailed Janet Mawire and
told her I heard the station and asked for a QSL if possible. Hope
this helps. Thanks! 73, (W1DAN, Dan Brown, CBTE, CBNT, WBZ-TV/DT,
WSBK-TV/DT Engineering, Boston, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Click to expand...

You can check this out for yourself at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8083.txt
 
A little clarification is in order here. Janet Mawire is the wife of the Dr Robert Mawire, the CEO and Founder of Good News World Outreach, the present owner of WRNO Worldwide.

There have been a few others who reported that they could hear the testing that has been going on at the WRNO worldwide transmitter.
 
I programmed the frequencies into my shortwave and I havent heard anything yet.


Smashed
 
I live in Central Mississippi and am about 200 miles from New Orleans. I tried to pick this up but no luck. You must recieve this signal quite a ways from New Orleans. If you live within 150 to 250 miles away from New Orleans you probably will not hear it as it is in WRNO Worldwide's skip zone. It has been heard as far away as Boston, as close as North Central Oklahoma and South Florida and as far away as Costa Rica. Also you must keep the receiver on constantly on 15590 during the day and 7505 at night as the testing is going to be sporatic.
 
When on full power, within 30 miles or so of The tower you will hear the station as I used to listen and switch back and forth between WRNO 99.5 and Worldwide on 7355khz back during the 1st Iraq war.

weird to hear some of the local advertisers not realizing their ads were being heard in Toledo:)

RFLA
 
i remember wrno worldwide simulcasting wrno fm on the shortwave signal. it was like hearing wrno on am but with more static than a distant low power am. :D
brian
 
I live in Central Mississippi also, and back in the 90's I used to hear WRNO coming in gangbusters at night with the hairbanging "Z-rock" format for a short while and then they would switch to some spanish programming. I could never pick it up in the daytime although I remember rush limbaugh would sometimes mention on air that they were on WRNO shortwave. I believe it was 15690Khz or something. I suspect the reason I couldn't pick it up in the daytime was maybe because the signal was jumping over my head, because while on vacation in Missori I picked up WRNO blasting in on my grandmothers cheap AM radio. Some cheap radios will occasionally bleed in shortwave stations. Heard some good rock and roll that day. I remember back in the 80's I used to listen to WRNO shortwave on my college roomates massive chinese jambox which could pick up shortwave, but was nearly impossible to tune because the entire band was squeezed onto SW-1 and SW-2. It took a steady hand to tune anything in, since the knob wasn't geared down. Back then WRNO came in good during the day.
 
Hi Everyone!

I am the person "close to" WRNO....well, I'm not really close as I am now living in Boston. Last year I did a story in Monitoring Times magazine about the new WRNO WW coming back. I am surprised it took so long, but guess their money flows slowly. That is how I got to know Janet Mawire and their transmitter engineer Larry (who is an interesting person to talk with).

Since hearing them a week ago I have not had a chance to listen again. Their antenna is beamed to the northeast and puts a very good signal into NC to NYC area among other places. It was a pretty good signal when I listened.

I remember visiting the new WRNO SW studios off the I-10 and their getting ready to go on the air in the early 80's as I had a friend engineer working for Joe who would tell me scuttlebutt. I was scared they'd overload my SW receiver when they went on the air (which they did not).

The new folk's transmitter is a new Elcor plate modulated rig in the old transmitter building on the same spot on the West Bank. Same antenna (and a nice one).

I enjoyed Joe's experiment (listening to screaming guitars though a selective fade is painful!) and actually wish it was successful, but I guess it was hard for advertizers to determine if their ads were effective. It was weird hearing promos for Zebra concerts while listening in Boston! The new WRNO will be mostly religous programming.

On a side note, I grew up in NOLA and used to work at WTUL (if ya call that work!), WBYU-FM, WLTS, as well as WGNO-TV and WLAE TV stations. Still visit and occasionally and tune the dials. The city's radio market has gone down alot since I lived there. Sad.

Dan Brown
www.danbrown.tv
 
Hello Everyone!

As pointed out in other post, WRNO Worldwide is officially back on the air. I thought I would post this to clear up some of the questions I have read in earlier post. The new licensed frequencies are for WRNO are: 7.355, 7.505 and 15.590. For the time being, 7.505 is the only frequency being used. Air time is 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM Central time. We have received very good reports from listeners on the East Coast, Canada, and some European Countries. As to RFI interference complaints from the neighborhood, so far there have been none. RF is at the full 50 Kw licensed output and modulation is clean. The transmitter runs cool with current readings at the low end of their maximum ratings. The daytime frequency of 15.590 has not been on the air long enough (only testing at this point), to determine how it will get along with the neighborhood but testing results were good. As time goes on, Air Time will be increased as will the daytime frequency of 15.590.

Larry Thom
Chief Engineer WRNO
 
Larry,

Are Short Wave station like WRNO required to man their transmitters sites these days?
At least in the 80s, the FCC didn't allowed short wave radio stations to go remote control.
 
I saw on the FCC website that a few weeks ago WRNO WW was requesting a move to Fort Worth. Guess they were a little late on that one! ;)
 
It was reported that WRNO worldwide was off because it had a problem with the Juice like nearly everyone recovering from Gustav. It is back on the air except for a few days when it thought the Fort Worth HQ would be hit by Ike. But it is back on the air.
 
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