As the station's wattage increased, shortwave radio enthusiasts in North America started receiving the station's broadcasts, submitting reception reports in order to provide the HCJB engineers feedback on the station's signal strength and quality. An HCJB envelope with a 1938 postmark which contained a QSL card sent to the addressee Since a popular practice in the hobby of shortwave radio listening was to request a QSL card, HCJB started creating its own QSLs in 1932. An HCJB QSL card from 1955 By the 1970s, the station was one of the most powerful and most readily received shortwave stations.

The correspondence department of HCJB would respond in kind to its listeners with QSL cards and Christian tracts. An HCJB QSL card from 1975 showing a mountaineer on top of Cotopaxi As requests for QSLs became more frequent, HCJB missionary and radio engineer Clayton Howard suggested a shortwave listeners ' club be created.

Another station, such as HCJB or Trans World Radio will carry brokered programming from evangelists.

Clarence W. Jones started transmitting on Christmas Day, 1931 from Christian missionary radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador.

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 )

Following the first years of HCJB's broadcasts on 50. 26 meters ( 5986 kHz ), the shortwave frequencies utilized by HCJB for its broadcasts from Quito were 6050 kHz, 9745 kHz, 11775 kHz and 15155 kHz.

HCJB was heard around the world and received hundreds of letters each week with reception reports from shortwave DXers.

" " DX-Partyline " was hosted from its inception by HCJB missionary Clayton Howard and his wife, Helen.

Programs not produced by HCJB were also broadcast from the Quito station.

* Reuben & Grace Larson, missionaries to Ecuador in the 1930s, co-founders of HCJB, international Christian healthcare and media ministry

Much of HCJB's original programming also included music recorded, produced and performed by HCJB missionaries.

* 1931-The station's first broadcast using a 200-watt transmitter designed and built by HCJB Engineer Eric Williams.

* 1940-The station adds a 10, 000 watt transmitter designed and built by HCJB Engineer Clarence C. Moore, allowing the station's broadcast signal to reach around the world.

* 1940-Clarence Moore invents, and later patents the cubical quad antenna and puts it into use at HCJB. Cover of the 1947 HCJB Radio Log sent to the missionary station's contributors and partners

Some Christian organizations also refer to a “ Quechua people ,” such as the Christian shortwave radio station HCJB, " The Voice of the Andes " ( La Voz de los Andes ).

Initially, HCJB only broadcast programs in English and Spanish.

As with all countries having a governing body over broadcast operations, the call letters HCJB were obtained through the government of Ecuador, beginning with the internationally allocated prefix for Ecuador's broadcast stations ( HC ).

Jones incorporated the World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc. ( WRMF ) on March 9, 1931 as a non-profit entity and overseeing organization over HCJB.

Shortwave radio stations with a Christian format broadcast worldwide, such as HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, Family Radio's WYFR, and the Bible Broadcasting Network ( BBN ), among others.

HCJB, " The Voice of the Andes ", was the first radio station with daily programming in the South American country of Ecuador and the first Christian missionary radio station in the world.

The grounds of radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador

* Clarence C. Moore, engineer, supporter of HCJB and founder of Crown International

Current broadcasters include All India Radio, BBC World Service, Deutschlandradio, biteXpress, HCJB, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands Worldwide, RTÉ Radio ( RTÉ ), Radio Exterior de España, RAI, Kuwait Radio, Radio New Zealand International, Vatican Radio, Voice of Russia and Radio Romania International.

In 1966, Marjorie ( Marj ) Farris Saint married Abe Van Der Puy, President of HCJB World Radio.

Radio Station HCJB co-founder, Clarence Wesley Jones, c. 1945

Radio station HCJB started as the vision of Clarence W. Jones, a musician, graduate of Moody Bible Institute, and the son of a Salvation Army minister.

HCJB co-founder Reuben Larson, c. 1940

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