«It’s a Piece of Junk»
CIarence Moore was a pastor, teacher, and radio-enthusiast who felt God inexplicably leading him to drive from his home in Michigan to Chicago. After Moore arrived in Chicago, he went to his relative, Rev. John Meredith, and asked if perhaps he knew why God had brought him to Chicago. Rev. Meredith was a radio preacher […]
A Cheerful Beginning
Dr. Paul Roberts’ dream of a modern hospital became a reality with the inauguration of Hospital- Vozandes Quito on Oct. 12, 1955. Dr. Carlos Andrade Marín (at left) had been the doctor to the Jones family many years earlier. Dr. Marín served on the advisory board of the hospital and was also the Mayor of […]
How do you share the gospel with people scattered throughout the jungle?
This was not an easy task for Reuben and Grace Larson; the local Quichua Indians ran away and hid from them! Reuben decided that building a trading post at Dos Rios could bring people right to his doorstep. At first, they traded matches, machetes and various trinkets for food for their family. As the Larsons […]
From Jungle Station to Radio Station
Reuben and Grace Larson were Christian & Missionary Alliance missionaries who began working in Ecuador in 1924. The Larson’s opened a mission station in the eastern jungle at Dos Rios (near Tena) where they started a church and a school for the jungle Quichuas. The Larson’s were actively involved the founding of HCJB and gave […]
THE DAY THE TONER FELL
Dr. Stearns and I began our climb. I don’t believe we had actually reached the top when the rope anchor slipped where it had been tied on the ground. All I remember is that I felt the tower begin to move and I immediately realized what had happened. I was told later that both of […]
HCJB’s Vozandes Orchestra
When HCJB began in 1931 there were no tape recorders. Virtually all of the station’s programming was done live. Clarence contracted local classical musicians to form «la Orquestra Vozandes» (the Vozandes Orchestra). Clarence had a deep appreciation for classical music. He had studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and also played first chair trombone in […]
Your Microphone Friends
“The joy of Christ in the faces and lives of Mr. And Mrs. Cabrera is spontaneous and infectious. No one is around them long before he senses that the source of such happiness is the Christ whom they love and serve. Mrs. Cabrera was born in Madrid and Mr. Cabrera in Cuba… Many thousands have […]
HCJB’s first broadcast almost didn’t happen…
Radio experts had told Clarence to stay away from the mountains and the equator. So Clarence decided to have Eric, a former CBS engineer build an experimental transmitter that would allow them to test different frequencies. The experimental transmitter however was rather temperamental. The day before HCJB’s first scheduled broadcast, a mercury vapor rectifier tube […]
Hydro Power
By the late 1950s, the cost of using diesel generators to power HCJB’s broadcasts had skyrocketed. Technical staff began looking at building a hydroelectric plant by the Papallacta River to greatly reduce the cost of electricity. Bob Wittig found a used hydroelectric generator in the U.S. for a near scrap metal price. Staff constructed a […]
For One Sucre…
The station needed towers to support the radio antenna. But how could Clarence Jones and Eric Williams build them? The solution was to ask the Quito Electric company for their two tallest poles. The 85 ft. eucalyptus poles soon arrived at Quinta Corston. Two holes for the poles were dug 200 feet apart. They attached […]
