{"id":5029,"date":"2019-01-12T05:43:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=5029"},"modified":"2019-01-12T05:46:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T10:46:15","slug":"wwl-870-new-oreans-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=5029","title":{"rendered":"WWL 870 <br>New Oreans, Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WWL <\/strong>870 with its 50 kW clear channel signal is widely heard at night in North America. They played a major role in providing information to a large audience after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. However, with more stations occupying the channel, getting clear reception of WWL is more difficult in many areas. I first picked them up on 22 December 1969 and sent them a reception report. In response they sent a QSL card.  Thirty years later to the day, I sent another reception report and they replied with a second QSL card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222a-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5033\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5033\" class=\"wp-image-5033\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222a-1024x607.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222a-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222a-768x456.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222a.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222b-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5030\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5030\" class=\"wp-image-5030\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222b-1024x607.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222b-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222b-768x455.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19691222b.jpg 1596w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_a-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5031\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5031\" class=\"wp-image-5031\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_a-1024x663.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_a-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_a-768x497.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_a.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" src=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_b-1024x663.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"5032\" data-link=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5032\" class=\"wp-image-5032\" srcset=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_b-1024x663.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_b-300x194.jpg 300w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_b-768x497.jpg 768w, http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/WWL_New_Orleans_870_19991222_b.jpg 1624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWL 870 with its 50 kW clear channel signal is widely heard at night in North America. They played a major role in providing information to a large audience after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. However, with more stations occupying the channel, getting clear reception of WWL is more difficult in many areas. I first picked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/?p=5029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WWL 870 <br \/>New Oreans, Louisiana<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5036,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5029\/revisions\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qsl.philcobill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}