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Clarence C. Moore (1904-January 24, 1979Clarence 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
/ref>. 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 {{Amateur-radio-stub