{"id":35686,"date":"2019-01-25T08:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T12:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35686"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T13:33:16","slug":"radio-memories-andrews-brush-with-hcjb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/radio-memories-andrews-brush-with-hcjb\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Memories: Andrew\u2019s brush with HCJB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HCJB, 1987 (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/i> contributor,\u00a0Doug Evans, who shares the following radio memory:<\/p>\n

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I have been an SWL on and off for the past 30+ years, listening from New York, North Dakota, Texas, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and now from Denver and loving my Tecsun PL-660. Back in the 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s the SWL waves were full of awesome. It was huge fun to dial up Radio Saigon or Radio Pyongyang and listen to their opinions, in return the USA fired back with Rush Limbaugh on WRNO<\/p>\n

Through my early years in SWLing I would always find HCJB in Quito Ecuador \u201cThe Voice of the Andes\u201d I loved their shows especially \u201cDX Party Line\u201d but I\u2019d settle for the other \u00a0programming, \u201cHAM Radio Today\u201d, \u201cThe Music of the Andes\u201d, \u201cTips For Real Living\u201d\u2026 I always had a SW radio and a longwire where ever we went and especially on camping trips, and HCJB could always be found.<\/p>\n

Job changes caused me to box up my radios for several years, but around 2010 I broke out the radios and found that HCJB was nowhere to be found. The hobby lost a lot of it\u2019s attraction because of that. Not long after that my future wife asked me to drive with her from our home in Denver down to Colorado Springs to visit her relative, her mother\u2019s cousin Tommy. She said he was a missionary in South America and handed me a book he wrote. In the preface he mentioned radio station HCJB.<\/p>\n

Her mother\u2019s cousin Tommy lived near the HCJB work headquarters in Colorado springs and I asked him about HCJB, he told me he was an engineer there for over 30 years and spent the afternoon telling me glory days of the largest radio stations on earth, and eventually having to take down the huge antenna farm to make room for the Quito airport. I wish I had taken notes, and I wish I had a chance to meet with him again, but like HCJB Tommy is no longer with us.<\/p>\n

What an amazing coincidence it was to meet one of the men who kept HCJB on the air.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What a coincidence indeed! Thanks for sharing your memory, Douglas!<\/p>\n

Post readers<\/i>: Do you have a radio memory you\u2019d like to share? \u00a0Please contact me with your story!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Doug Evans, who shares the following radio memory: I have been an SWL on and off for the past 30+ years, listening from New York, North Dakota, Texas, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and now from Denver and loving my Tecsun PL-660. Back in the 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s the SWL […]<\/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":[3,305,7566],"tags":[7567,2852,5430],"class_list":["post-35686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-memories","tag-douglas-evans","tag-hcjb","tag-radio-memories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9hA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9512,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-hcjb-45th-anniversary-december-25-1976\/","url_meta":{"origin":35686,"position":0},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: HCJB 45th Anniversary, December 25, 1976","author":"Thomas","date":"May 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very grateful to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Greg Shoom, who is digitizing shortwave radio recordings he made in the 1970's. 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