Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:08:29 -0500 > From: "BIRKEY, DUANE" <dbirkey@hcjb.org.ec> > Subject: [Leica] RE: Photographer for a radio station. > > How does one get to be a photographer at a radio station............ > Well HCJB is not a typical radio station. In Quito we record and > broadcast, English, Spanish, Quichua, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, > French and German programs.... Our Pifo transmitter site is the largest > recording studio, accounting, personnel, engineering, ISD, etc. and yes > one-man photography department...... If you can imagine all of the > possible photographic needs that these areas can generate.... Dear Duane, I suspect I may be one of the few Luggers here with a sense what HCJB is all about, having listened to it for a couple decades. I must confess to being a secular listener, mostly for DX Partyline, but it seems to me that HCJB features less cultural and historical coverage about Ecuador than in years past at the expense of the religious material. Perhaps you can pass that along to the programming staff. What I really wanted to mention here was the HCJB QSL cards. Do you photograph any of these?. I haven't seen or reported for any QSLs at HCJB in 20 years, but in the late 70s as a young teenager growing up in New Zealand I used to submit regular reception reports to HCJB. At the time they had different monthly QSL cards that were typically series about Ecuadorian life. I still have the cards stored in a shoebox today and the photographs on them gave me such a good perspective about Ecuador that I've always wanted to visit there. Alas, my only contact with the country in the intervening years has been your radio station which consistently booms into southern Ontario with awesome signals on all the frequencies. BTW, the much lower-powered Radio Quito on 4919 kHz comes in quite nicely here in the evenings as well. Don't understand the Espanol, but the music and vibe is lovely. Dave Fisher Waterloo, Ontario, Canada