WRNO Worldwide

[Doctor_Technical]

Kevin,

Good to see you on the board.

I remember one of the NOLA engineers "in the know" telling me that the insulators' failure mechanism was that the high-power/voltage/r.f. field would change the crystalline structure of the ceramic insulators over time.

Whether engineering fact or just a good story, it impressed me!

Paul E. Burt
Baton Rouge, LA

[Pigvomit]

Pig Vomit says leave my spelling alone! And, wonders why there is still such shock and awe at the Costello bro's. Mike told me, that on Joe's deathbead, he told him the CP was granted to go to 100KW. And, according to Mike, Joe smiled.........................Paperback writer......

[KDuplantis]

 Retarded.... Sorry, Hit the "T" instead of the "D".  Retarted means to have second helpings for dessert. Or, have second helpings for steak "tar tar".  Hello Paul! 

[gjroussejr]

K D
      I'll admit that the engineer I had talked to while the new ownership was installing the new transmitter, was before Katrina hit. He showed me the old coil and it did looked like it catch fire. Not the plates but something did burn inside it. The walls in the room did show burn marks. Weither he streched some of the story; maybe. I try to keep my facts as accurate as possible, however I visiter the site before the storm ( I think '04) so I may have got some facts wrong. I am only Human.

[Jeremy]

Thank you all for such bountiful information!

Now back to the feuding...

Jeremy

[gabigley1]

Well, After working there a couple of years, let me correct a few things. Insulators are made of ceramic, they do not burn up. I used to change freq at night when I worked a shift there, no sparks would "fly out", that is a complete falsehood. After Joe's death, "I went to the funeral and am friends with M.C. and Aloma his personal assistant for years" the estate willed the shortwave to the Catholic church. This was worked out ahead of Joes death in leu of going to hell for past sins. No joke, this was told to me by someone near to the family. Also, coils are metal and do not catch fire. Whom ever you talked to must be RETARTED! The small transmitter you speak of was a Yaesu ham transiever. And to finish my rant, the antenna system was hand built from a kit by Joe Pollet in 1981/82. It was a 13 db gain log periodic beaming 20deg of mag north toward Detroit from N.O. Most of the time we barely ran half power because of the cost of electricty and the transmitter not making power on certain bands. BTW Does anyone remember how to indent at the begining of a paragraph? 

What was a typical shift like at the WRNO Worldwide transmitter site? I talked to
Joe C about a gig out there in 1987.

Dose any one think WRNO Worldwide will ever see the light of day again??
There has been rumors of WRNO WW returning to the the air for years and years.

[Sawtooth McMullen]

this is interesting...........i honestly havent thought of this station in years. thought it went down the tubes when citadel sucked up wrno from the costellos.

  brian

[waynewatkins]

Galloway got it from Costello...and laid off their longtime top sales guy (great friend) Ronnie Gogreve knowing he had colon cancer.  Real class act.  Thank God for ol' man Sid at 'CKW who took Go-Go in and let the man die in peace with insurance for he and his family.     

[richllewis]

If anyone wants to know about WRNO Shortwave there are indications and some representations that WRNO shortwave is about to come back on the air. If you want further details, go to http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt and go to the USA section and you will see the information on WRNO Shortwave. This info is on the web for a very short time so hurry

[richllewis]

I am publishing and paraphraising stuff from DX Listening Digest ezine edited by Glenn Hauser which I have permission to reproduce. Here is the gist: yesterday Glenn Hauser reported to the Shortwave listening public that he was hearing some transmitter testing and tuning up the transmitter on 15590 khz at about 1938-1950 UTC (that is about 2:38-2:50 CDT) .He suspected it was WRNO Shortwave. Later in the thread there was confirmation from a source close to WRNO Worldwide's owner that in fact they have been testing and tuning up the transmitter and hoped to get some audio to test within the next week. Later there was this post confirming this was in fact WRNO Shortwave. The confirmation is as follows:

After seven years I am happy to confirm that WRNO is back
on the air. Right now they are putting the transmitter through its
final adjustments and tuning. During next week the required testing
should be completed and the FCC Form 310 will be filed. Regular
programming is planned to begin on August 1. They plan to use 7505 kHz
at night and 15590 kHz by day. But, they may have a very limited
broadcast station for a while. 73, (George Jacobs, P.E., July 18, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

This was George Jacobs, a well known consulting Engineer in Shortwave listening circles confirming that WRNO Shortwave was indeed back and was in the process of doing the preliminary things to get back on the air.

If you want to confirm this go to http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8082.txt which this was taken.