WOR New York NY 710 kHz QSL and Audio

New York City skyline from Ellis Island (Photograph Wikimedia Commons).

WOR New York on 710 kHz is one of the more regular stations heard at Fish Hoek during good mediumwave propagation from the U.S.A. The station made it through on the 21st of November 1988 via the FRG7 and 25 metre longwire antenna.

Chief Engineer Paul Stewart kindly verified my reception report with the above QSL card.

An early photograph (circa 1922) showing WOR's transmitter room located on the roof of Bamberger's Department store in Newark, New Jersey (Photograph with kind permission from Tom Ray).

Audio Clip

WOR on 710 kHz was heard with a huge local sunrise peak at 0402 UTC on the 11th January 2011 at Noordhoek via the Sony SRF-M37V ultralight receiver which was inductively coupled to a 220 Metre BOG directed towards North America.

An early photograph (circa 1922) showing the first WOR antenna on top of Bamberger's Department store in Newark, New Jersey, when the station used to operate with 500 watts (Photograph Tom Ray).

Trans Atlantic Reception on an ultralight radio with the internal 2.5 inch ferrite antenna!

WOR New York also made a surprise appearance at Fish Hoek over a distance of 12 550 km - heard on a barefoot Sony M37V Ultralight radio with just the internal 2.5 inch ferrite antenna during the early hours on the 8th November 2009.

Rebuilding WOR Radio from the tip of the mic to the top of the tower

The present WOR twin Harris 3DX50 transmitters with HD rack inbetween, located in Rutherford, New Jersey (Photograph with kind permission from Tom Ray).

A fascinating and detailed account with photographs, by Vice President/Corporate Director of Engineering Tom Ray who was in charge of the rebuilding of the WOR facilities is available here.