{"id":9512,"date":"2014-05-07T09:05:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2014-05-07T11:51:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T15:51:54","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-hcjb-45th-anniversary-december-25-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/shortwave-radio-recordings-hcjb-45th-anniversary-december-25-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: HCJB 45th Anniversary, December 25, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9513\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hcjb_staff_1946_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9513\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9513\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hcjb_staff_1946_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"HCJB radio station staff in 1946, including engineer Clayton Howard (front row left), co-founder Clarence Jones (front row right) and future HCJB president Abe Van Der Puy (front row, fourth from left) -- Source: Wikipedia\" width=\"577\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hcjb_staff_1946_cropped.jpg 577w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hcjb_staff_1946_cropped-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hcjb_staff_1946_cropped-100x67.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 577px) 100vw, 577px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9513\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HCJB radio station staff in 1946, including engineer Clayton Howard (front row left), co-founder Clarence Jones (front row right) and future HCJB president Abe Van Der Puy (front row, fourth from left) &#8212; Source: Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m very grateful to <a title=\"SRAA\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a> contributor, Greg Shoom, who is digitizing shortwave radio recordings he made in the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>His latest contribution is a\u00a01976 recording of\u00a0HCJB&#8217;s 45th Anniversary broadcast.\u00a0This is a special program, broadcast on Christmas Day of 1976 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the founding of HCJB. Greg made this recording from his home in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on December 25, 1976, starting at 02:30 UTC on 6,095 kHz.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_10_1_1_1399464795289_26880\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/HCJB45thAnniversaryProgram6.095MHz25Dec19760230UTC\/HCJB-45thAnniversaryProgram-6.095MHz-25Dec1976-0230UTC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/HCJB45thAnniversaryProgram6.095MHz25Dec19760230UTC\/HCJB-45thAnniversaryProgram-6.095MHz-25Dec1976-0230UTC.mp3\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/id654690909\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/id654690909\">Please subscribe to the SRAA podcast<\/a>\u00a0to receive future recordings automatically.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/HCJB45thAnniversaryProgram6.095MHz25Dec19760230UTC\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m very grateful to Shortwave Radio Audio Archive contributor, Greg Shoom, who is digitizing shortwave radio recordings he made in the 1970&#8217;s. His latest contribution is a\u00a01976 recording of\u00a0HCJB&#8217;s 45th Anniversary broadcast.\u00a0This is a special program, broadcast on Christmas Day of 1976 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the founding of HCJB. Greg made this [&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":[56,3,305,288,746,43],"tags":[2854,2682,2852,258,2853,2479],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-2854","tag-greg-shoom","tag-hcjb","tag-hcjb-global","tag-hcjb-history","tag-shortwave-radio-audio-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2tq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63579,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/hcjb-quito-ecuador-then-and-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":9512,"position":0},"title":"HCJB Quito, Ecuador &#8211; Then and Now","author":"Thomas","date":"August 8, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","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\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1970-QSL.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1970-QSL.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1970-QSL.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1970-QSL.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/HCJB-1970-QSL.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9058,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/1976-recording-of-rnw-added-to-the-shotwave-radio-audio-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":9512,"position":1},"title":"1976 recording of RNW added to the Shotwave Radio Audio Archive","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Greg Shoom, a new contributor to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, has just submitted a 1976-1977 off air recording which includes: The Happy Station Show hosted by Tom Meijer\u00a0(Christmas 1976 edition), an unidentified program called \"Why Join a DX Club\" and several longwave radio beacons. Click here to listen to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_0135","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IMG_0135-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":47040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/alfons-and-the-magic-christmas-tree-read-by-clayton-howard-on-hcjb-dx-patry-line-in-december-1974\/","url_meta":{"origin":9512,"position":2},"title":"&#8220;Alfons and the Magic Christmas Tree&#8221; read by Clayton Howard on HCJB DX Patry Line in December 1974","author":"Thomas","date":"December 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Rawdon, who shares the following: [This is] a recording of a story featured on HCJB\u2019s DX Party Line hosted by Clayton Howard. As far as I remember it was recorded in December 1974. It\u2019s a short story from SPEEDX about the reception of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DX&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DX","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/dx\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Radio-Dial-e1530836181998.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":734,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/new-shortwave-station-in-central-african-republic\/","url_meta":{"origin":9512,"position":3},"title":"New Shortwave Station in Central African Republic","author":"Thomas","date":"May 19, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: HCJB Global ( by Jean Muehlfelt) Imagine living in a country where you can't access the Internet, watch television, read newspapers or even receive mail. 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