A big fat good luck on that idea because the FCC license stays with Weiner. No one in their right mind is going to pay millions of dollars for that transmitter and antenna without having some sort of license deal to start with. That means they will have to get FCC approval to operate on 9330 Khz or some other frequency and its not commercially viable in the United States. International outfits like the BBC, DW, RFI and others aren't going to throw millions of dollars into a 500kw blowtorch transmitter and then the ALLISS rotatable antenna that requires a lot of work in keeping it functional in the horrendous Maine winters with freezing and snow and rain and ice. Then turn around its going to have to be someone with very deep pockets and worth a lot more blow money to put something onto the transmitter for 6 or 12 or 24 hours a day. Even the religious outfits don't have that kind of bookoo bucks to pay millions for a white elephant unless its some megapreacher with a net worth of 500 million or something. They're more interested in streaming TV, satellite TV or other networks. Its not as if Brother Scare's herd of fools and morons have the money as well though they are still paying to have their nonsense on 9930 WTWW every day and its the same old nonsense and rigmarole out of them.
Weiner half the time can't even produce a good signal to cover a lot of North America even with 7490. 5130 is largely silent except for parts of the East Coast and 6160 is generally low on the totem pole. Even here in the Midwest which isn't no more than a 1000 miles from WBCQ that 7490 a lot of the is hit and miss unless you have a longwire antenna outside stretched across your yard to pick up sky waves or even up in the air 30 to 40 feet. 6160 is even less reliable here but it shouldn't be but its obvious that Allan and Timtron don't have the antenna to get the transmission even halfway across North America. 5130 is pretty much non existent here for the most part and I am about 75 miles from the Ohio River and 150 some miles from Lake Michigan and it doesn't barely come in here and usually covered up with noise. The only thing really left is WWCR on 4840 and its the same rubber mouthed preachers etc. 13845 here during the days is mediocre at best as we are at the edge of its skip zone so most of the signal is going to Europe. The other WWCR frequency of 3215 is pretty much gone and not having been heard for quite a while. WRMI is the best bet for domestic shortwave listening at 5800, 5850, 5950, 9395, 9455, 9955. Sometimes at least day time 15770 is audible here maybe about 1000 miles away. The rest is pretty much trash as broadcasters have abandoned most of the shortwave outfits that have been broadcasting.
Topic: WBCQ's 500 kW 9330 kHz "Superstation" may be leased or sold. Owner statement (Read 349 times)