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Mike wrote:

On May 3, 6:32?pm, Bob Dobbs wrote:


Voice of the Andes was like WWV to me,
another beacon of a signal,
always used as a reference on the drifty old analog dial.


Yeah, Bob, I think it was the first station I heard when my parents
gave me my first SW portable back 1967. HCJB English religious
programming was the strongest signal, as I remember. It was enough to
really stoke my curiosity. I found a DX column in some popular tech
magazine at the library and was ordering my first WRTH from Gilfer by
1968.

Listening to HCJB's current limited lineup of Spanish (along with some
Portuguese and German) programming just isn't the same.

Like Steve, I think some of the old pennants would be really cool.


As a teenager I came across a busted SW tube radio, did a little work on
it and put up a horizontal long wire in the backyard. The first time it
fired up I had HCJB on it all the way from Quito Ecuador. I was floored.
I could not believe I had a radio that got a signal from that far away.
I had family members listen and nobody else thought it was that big a
deal.

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Telamon
Ventura, California