WBCQ (SW)


WBCQ is a shortwave radio station operating at Monticello, Maine, United States. The station is owned and operated by Allan Weiner, who also owns and operates WXME AM 780 kHz and WBCQ-FM 94.7 MHz at the shortwave site. WBCQ began operation on September 8, 1998 with just the WBCQ-1 transmitter on 7.415 MHz. WBCQ's shortwave antennas are all beamed directionally: primarily at 245 degrees, and secondarily at 65 degrees.
The station transmits numerous talk shows and other programs produced by commercial networks as well as former pirate radio broadcasters, such as Weiner himself and his erstwhile collaborators.
Unlike Weiner's former pirate radio stations, now relegated to well-documented history, WBCQ and its AM and FM sister stations are licensed by the FCC under his own name.

Rotatable antenna, and 500kW transmitter

In 2018, WBCQ applied for a new transmitter license associated with a rotatable antenna, later revealed to be a 500kW transmitter for an rotatable curtain antenna on a single mast, the system funded by , on 9.33 MHz.

Frequencies

;WBCQ 1: 7.49 MHz. WBCQ's flagship frequency operates a full 24-hour schedule with original programming only in the late-afternoon and evening hours; the remainder is leased out to R.G. Stair's Overcomer Ministry.
;WBCQ 2: 3.265 MHz. Operates on a limited schedule during the evening hours.
;WBCQ 3: 9.33 MHz. Operates as a full-time lease-out to religious broadcaster World's Last Chance.
;WBCQ 4: 5.13 MHz. Dormant.
;WBCQ 5: 6.16 MHz. Dormant.

Former frequencies