One of the first if not only English speaking stations I ever heard.Radio Habana Cuba was everywhere in those days though, but that's Caribbean.Clarence Moore also had a Haiti 🇭🇹 station 4VEH.This is very interesting to me, but way off topic. Excuse the noise.73DR______________________________________________________________On Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 2:20 AM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:Fascinating history. I worked in professional audio for many years
and was quite familiar with Crown, both amps and tape recorders but much
of this history is new to me.
HCJB was a never fail station. Could be heard when there was mostly
just noise on the air.
On 6/12/2024 4:58 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> In 1947 an Elkhart, Indiana minister named Clarence C. Moore developed
> and patented the cubical quad antenna, patented as US 2,537,191.
> founded the International Radio and Electronics Corporation (IREC)
> which, over the years, has become better known as Crown Audio Inc.
>
> Moore started by building open-reel tape recorders out of a chicken
> coop but today, Crown Audio is an industry leader in amplified sound.
> Crown makes amps for cinema venues, installed sites, touring rigs,
> portable PA and commercial audio. With over 67 years of focus on
> innovation and providing the best user experience, Crown Audio is
> continually raising the bar in audio amplification.
>
> Clarence C. Moore, a longtime radio enthusiast, had spent the early
> part of the ’40s in Quito, Ecuador working for HCJB, a non-profit
> Christian broadcasting and engineering group. He designed the 500,000
> watt transmitter used by his station HCJB "The Voice of the Andies".
> With that kind of power they were heard world-wide especially with the
> antennas Moore designed.
>
> Following his return to the United States, he felt the desire to
> supply Christian broadcasters like HCJB with quality electronic
> products. As a result, Moore founded International Radio and
> Electronics Corporation (IREC) in 1947 and converted a former chicken
> coop into the budding manufacturer’s first production facility.
>
> The company’s early reputation was built on a family of rugged and
> compact open-reel tape recorders designed to operate reliably when
> used by missionaries in remote, often-primitive regions of the world.
> After modifying and distributing several existing models (Magnecord,
> Recordio, Pentron and Crestwood) for the first couple of years, Moore
> obtained a patent in 1949 for a groundbreaking invention: the world’s
> first tape recorder with a built-in power amplifier (15 watts). This
> invention led the way for several more in the next 15 years. In 1964,
> the company invented their first solid-state amplifier called the SA
> 20-20. From then on, the focus switched from tape recorders to
> amplifiers and the business was quickly growing.
>
> Unfortunately, amongst all of the growth and development, a fire
> erupted on Thanksgiving Day in 1971 and destroyed over 60% of the
> facility and the remainder of the plant was severely damaged. There
> was $1 million of uninsured inventory destroyed in the process.
> However, Mr. Moore wasn’t going to let this disaster stop him now.
> Production resumed within 6 weeks with the latest of their inventions,
> the D-60 amplifier.
>
> Eventually, Moore’s wife and co-founder, Ruby (deceased 2002),
> suggested that a name change was in order. Since IREC had by this
> point produced vacuum tube tape recorders branded ‘Royal’ and
> ‘Imperial’, in addition to the fact that the emblem on those products
> was a fancy crown, she felt that the company should simply be called
> Crown. In 1975, the stockholders voted to change the name of the
> corporation to Crown International, Inc.
--
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
SKCC 19998
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