{"id":42147,"date":"2020-02-23T09:07:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=42147"},"modified":"2020-02-23T09:07:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:07:09","slug":"guys-mind-blown-when-he-stumbles-upon-wbcqs-ampegon-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/guys-mind-blown-when-he-stumbles-upon-wbcqs-ampegon-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy&#8217;s mind blown when he stumbles upon WBCQ&#8217;s Ampegon antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31285\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ampegon-Shortwave-Antenna-Tower.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31285\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31285\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ampegon-Shortwave-Antenna-Tower.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ampegon-Shortwave-Antenna-Tower.jpeg 570w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Ampegon-Shortwave-Antenna-Tower-251x300.jpeg 251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: Ampegon)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who shares a link to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/syYM2qYAVbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this YouTuber<\/a> who stumbled upon shortwave station, WBCQ, while driving through rural Maine in 2018. He obviously didn&#8217;t understand what the site was at the time&#8211;nor the fact that the owner loves collecting vintage equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The video gives the impression of WBCQ being a place of mystery and intrigue. If he only knew that he would have likely been welcomed with open arms and gotten a detailed tour had he only contacted the station!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syYM2qYAVbo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Van Hoy, who shares a link to this YouTuber who stumbled upon shortwave station, WBCQ, while driving through rural Maine in 2018. He obviously didn&#8217;t understand what the site was at the time&#8211;nor the fact that the owner loves collecting vintage equipment. The video gives the impression of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[6546,657,658],"class_list":["post-42147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-van-hoy","tag-wbcq","tag-wbcq-the-planet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aXN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31022,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/wbcq-builds-500-kw-transmitting-station\/","url_meta":{"origin":42147,"position":0},"title":"WBCQ builds 500 kW transmitting station","author":"Thomas","date":"March 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here at the Winter SWL Fest, there has been much chatter about the new Ampegon rotatable antenna and transmitter system at WBCQ. 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