I heard HCJB on 690khz...but weak at night here in my Cave in the Pacific....Quito Ecuador must be beautiful ❤️...I was listening to the 89 fm today via the Net....is the DX Party Line still on....I was a member of ANDEX Club in the 1980s. .I still have my QSL Cards from the 1980s...the music 🎵🎶 programs were great too... 😊... Great Radio Memories 😎

@PyramidOfBubbles777

Күн бұрын

I loved listening to the DX Party Line back in the early and mid 80's. Clayton and Helen Howard. Great memories of those broadcasts.

Fantastic video! My family lived in Ecuador as missionaries and my dad was a radio announcer at HCJB back in the late 80s to the early 90s. I’ve been to the antenna farm in Pifo and the facility in Papallacta too. Your video was a great trip down memory lane and helped me to piece together my childhood memories to my adult love for radio. 73 de KI5MNT

@Ghostwritersinthesky

3 күн бұрын

was his name Ray ? there is a Pastor Ray Hinchman noted as a host for the radio HCJB radio program "Mountain Meditations" in an andean setting in January till February 1994 in the newspaper "Andex International" Vol. 20 No. 6 November - December 1993 in the Program Notes for Januar - February Sunday 1994 Vol. VI No.1 on Page 7. did he have an amateurradio callsign and if yes, what was it ? 73

@JohnHinchman

3 күн бұрын

@@Ghostwritersinthesky ​​⁠hi! That is my dad! He loved his time in the ministry there, but he never got his license for Amateur Radio. I recently upgrade my license to General here in the US so I can get into the HF range, but it will be a while before I can afford to put together a rig. Thanks again for the great video!

I was 9or10 when I started listening to shortwave in Chicagoland HCJB was always loud and clear, probably due to your expertise. Richard Thank You so much for adding to my knowledge of the former station. The Elkhart Indiana Crown Elect Suitcase radio would be ideal for 1.885 Mc phone net QSOs. Thank You AWA for airing Richard's the talk.

About 1953 our church in DuBois Pennsylvania sent a missionary to Quito. We learned he was to be interviewed on a program at a certain date and time. My job was to acquire a tape recorder and tune it in and tape it so that others in the congregation could hear from HCJB. It actually worked, and people were very pleased at the religious experiences that our church brother reported. Your presentation is informative and revealing of the people and how they worked together to achieve this success for many decades. Gracias!

Listened to this regularly here in the US ... was sad to see it go ...

@Ghostwritersinthesky

3 күн бұрын

it isn't gone, Radio HCJB is transmitting on shortwave, if you look up HCJB on the net you can easily find their radio frequencies for different places on earth.

Thanks for posting this - as an ex BBC Transmitter engineer it was fascinating to see! Especially all the superb and ingenious 'in house' custom designed equipment. This was similar to the British Eastern Relay station which the UK's Diplomatic Wireless Service had on Masirah Island in Oman with a couple of 'home made' 750Kw MW transmitters for BBC World Service. These were later supplemented by four 100KW Harris SW100 HF Tx's which had to be the most unreliable things I ever worked with in my 23 year career! Of course that station was replaced 19 years back with an all Thales HF/MF setup a 100km north on the Omani mainland which I guess like the rest of HF will probably fizzle out in the near future as more and more listeners desert the shortwaves for FM and mobile apps.

thanks for the video, love these.

@Ghostwritersinthesky

3 күн бұрын

for a Christian radioamateur great to watch a documentary on a Christian shortwave radio transmitter, HCJB, it covers two interestes, both Faith & radiotechnology. 73

Thank You for the nice video. 73 de DJ8CY

Didn't HCJB use a Sterba curtain at one time in the 70's ?? I seem to remember Clayton mentioning such the last time I talked to him.

@RichardPlace-yn7uc

3 ай бұрын

I don’t know about antennas in the 70s, but when I was there in 2001 the curtain was their primary antenna. One set of towers supported a curtain towards North America on one side of the towers and South America on the other side. Another set of towers had curtains on both sides, one side to cover Europe and the other Asia.