{"id":63579,"date":"2025-08-08T08:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=63579"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:07:16","slug":"hcjb-quito-ecuador-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/hcjb-quito-ecuador-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"HCJB Quito, Ecuador – Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the 1970s, the powerful signal from radio station HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador, could be heard with station identifications (similar to this one circa 1971) being given between programs.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1971.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

I am led to believe that they were made by the late Bob Beukema (1928-2001), since his resonant radio voice was often referred to as the “Voice of the Andes”. My listening post at the time was Ancaster, Ontario, Canada.<\/p>\n

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Today, the station can still be heard broadcasting from Ecuador, albeit with much lower power, perhaps 10 kW at the most, and a much simpler antenna arrangement.<\/p>\n

The accompanying recording was made July 30, 2025 on 6050 kHz around 0200 hours UTC using a Kiwi SDR located in Lima, Peru. Even though programming is only in Spanish and indigenous languages, some of that wonderful Andean music can still be found here.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-Quito-via-200.123.27.181_2025-07-30T01_58_54Z_6050.00_am.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

73
\nDan Greenall, Ontario, Canada<\/p>\n

Click here to download a bit of HCJB ephemera (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Greenall, who writes: In the 1970s, the powerful signal from radio station HCJB, the Voice of the Andes, in Quito, Ecuador, could be heard with station identifications (similar to this one circa 1971) being given between programs. I am led to believe that they were made by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[10271,2852,1302,4106,10868],"class_list":["post-63579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-greenall","tag-hcjb","tag-radio-nostalgia","tag-recordings","tag-voice-of-the-andes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gxt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":56925,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/awa-video-hcjb-high-in-the-andes\/","url_meta":{"origin":63579,"position":0},"title":"AWA Video: HCJB “High in the Andes”","author":"Thomas","date":"May 24, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark (AE2EA), who writes:\u00a0 Good Morning Thomas, The Antique Wireless Museum has just released a video of a presentation by AWA member Rich Place about his time working at HCJB, The Voice of the Andes. I thought your SWLing members might be interested. https:\/\/youtu.be\/lZpFHADp27g\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Zenith-Transoceanic-R-7000-2-angle-e1540388449299.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35686,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/radio-memories-andrews-brush-with-hcjb\/","url_meta":{"origin":63579,"position":1},"title":"Radio Memories: Andrew\u2019s brush with HCJB","author":"Thomas","date":"January 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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