"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 13:33:00 -0500, Randy Padawer wrote
(in message ) :

Today I scanned across 19m and heard some really scary evanglist types
on 15.385 MHz -- it was just after 1800 GMT, Wednesday, September 10,
2003. Here's an excerpt:


It may be KJES, a station on which I have no information (and would
appreciate some). Appears to be in the Southwest USA.

Gray


Glenn Hauser has mentioned KJES in a few DX Listening Digests:

http://www.dxing.com/dxr/dxld2140.htm

"* U S A. LITTLE KNOWN KJES IN VADO, NEW MEXICO, IS FIRST U.S.
CATHOLIC SHORTWAVE STATION'

"By Dr. Hansjeorg Biener. From his Medien Aktuell: Kirche im Rundfunk,
February 2002. © Copyright 2002 and reprinted with permission."

"Vado, New Mexico (Medien Aktuell) -- At the end of 1989 and beginning
of 1990, North American shortwave fans notice the first test
transmissions of station KJES Missionary Radio Evangelism originating
from a ranch operated by a Catholic priest for rehabilitating youth.
In an interview he spoke of having two 50,000-watt shortwave
transmitters, but that did not happen. On the contrary, the
transmissions from the used transmitters were sporadic and did not
happen regularly until 1992. The programs are essentially prayers,
hymns, and readings."

"KJES maintains an unvarying programming and frequency schedule, summer
season and winter season, year after year. All times are UT, world
time, same as London, which is six hours ahead of New York time (five
in summer daylight saving time). [make that 5 and 4, respectively, but
how is New York relevant in this??? -- gh]"

0200-0300 7555 kHz English to western Canada
0300-0330 7555 kHz English to central Canada

1400-1500 11715 kHz English to eastern Canada
1500-1600 11715 kHz English to western Canada
1600-1700 11715 kHz Spanish to Mexico

1900-2000 15385 kHz English to Australia
2000-2100 15385 kHz Spanish to Puerto Rico

"Database: Las Cruces: KJES shortwave. Service to North America and
Australia and the Pacific in English; Mexico, South America, and
Puerto Rico in Spanish. (One 50,000-watt transmitter). Format: Recited
psalms and prayers. Owner: Our Lord's Ranch, 230 High Valley Rd., Vado
NM 88072. (505) 233-2090, fax 233-3019. Michael Reuter, g.m. Fr. Rick
Thomas SJ, pres. See also El Paso, Tex. Founded about 1992. (In the
Diocese of Las Cruces) (Catholic Radio Update Sept 9 via DXLD)"

"KJES is run primarily for the benefit, it seems to me, of the young
people recovering from tough times in life, and serves Canada and
Australia in English and Mexico and Puerto Rico in Spanish a few hours
a day (Michael Dorner, CRU via DXLD) Do they really say PR is the
target? Why be so specific when, e.g., Florida, Cuba and D.R. are in
the same direxion? (gh, DXLD)"


About 10 years ago, Glenn Hauser said he was in the Vado area and decided to
make an unannounced visit to the KJES transmitter site. It was deserted at
the time. I suppose it's a real shoestring operation.

Frank Dresser