The station needed towers to support the radio antenna. But how could Clarence Jones and Eric Williams build them? The solution was to ask the Quito Electric company for their two tallest poles.

The 85 ft. eucalyptus poles soon arrived at Quinta Corston. Two holes for the poles were dug 200 feet apart. They attached pulleys to the tops of the poles and quickly hoisted them up into place.

In their haste however, they found themselves left with a greater problem. How were they now going to get the antenna to the top of these   85 ft. poles?

Pedro, the gardener’s son offered them a solution. For one sucre, he placed a rope between his teeth and shimmied up to the top of each pole. Pedro threaded the rope through the pulley, allowing the simple wire antenna to be hoisted up into the air.

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