Clarence C. Moore (1904-January 24, 1979
[Clarence C. Moore, HC1JB/W9LZX, Quad Inventor, QST magazine, August, 1979, p.59.]) was an engineer and minister at Radio Station
HCJB
HCJB, "The Voice of the Andes", was the first radio station with daily programming in Ecuador and the first Christian missionary radio station in the world. The station was founded in 1931 by Clarence W. Jones, Reuben Larson, and D. Stuart Clark ...
(subsequently known as
HCJB Global
World Radio Missionary Fellowship, Inc., also known as Reach Beyond (formerly HCJB Global), is a corporate entity and nonprofit, noncommercial, interdenominational worldwide missionary organization with headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado. ...
and now known as Reach Beyond) with primary transmitters in
Quito
Quito (; qu, Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city, capital and largest city of Ecuador, with an estimated population of 2.8 million in its urban area. It is also the capital of the province of Pichincha Province, Pichincha ...
,
Ecuador
Ecuador ( ; ; Quechuan languages, Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar language, Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechuan ...
.

He went on to found International Radio and Electronics Corporation (IREC) in
Elkhart, Indiana
Elkhart ( ) is a city in Elkhart County, Indiana, United States. The city is located east of South Bend, Indiana, east of Chicago, Illinois, and north of Indianapolis, Indiana. Elkhart has the larger population of the two principal cities of t ...
which was renamed
Crown International in the 1960s at the suggestion of his wife Ruby. Crown International manufactured electronic devices including power amplifiers. loudspeakers and tape recorders. The audio division was acquired by Harman International in March 2000.

Moore was an amateur radio operator with call signs of W9LZX and HC1JB.
He developed and patented the
cubical quad antenna, patented as US 2,537,191.
Patent 2,537,191
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Moore also owned domestic radio stations WXAX and WCMR.
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Amateur radio people
Protestant missionaries in Ecuador
1904 births
1979 deaths
20th-century American engineers
American expatriates in Ecuador
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