At 08:00, on the morning of January 2, 1995, I visited Radio Chota, located only two blocks from the hotel at which I stayed overnight. It was very easy to find thanks to a remarkable station billboard outside, which depicted the station name vertically. It was on the first floor of a two-story building at Jiron Gregorio Malca No. 560 in downtown Chota. At the reception desk, I explained to a receptionist the purpose of my visit. She proceeded inside the manager's office. Soon after, the station manager came to see an unexpected visitor from abroad. Mauro Vasquez Gonzalez, the general manager of Radio Chota, received me warmly. He told me that there were only the reception and the administration offices here. The broadcasting facilities were not installed at the same place, but at the transmitting site. He asked me to have breakfast together at his house before showing me the station facilities. Naturally I received his good proposal. Eating a typical Andean breakfast including choclo (big white corn on the cob), natural cheese and chicharron (fried salty pork), he explained that the station was heard around the world. Many letters arrived from DXers of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Finland, Sweden, Italy, England, and other European countries, and he showed me a file of the reception reports. I could see a mountain of reports from shortwave listeners, including several follow-up reports of mine. According to DX bulletins, Radio Chota was not a good verifier. However, a few DXers, who sent their reception reports when the shortwave outlet came to be heard in the early 1980's, were fortunate enough to obtain replies from the station. As I had never received a QSL from Radio Chota, I asked him why the station had not replied to reception reports in recent years. Mauro said in spite of having sent verification letters to shortwave listeners, the station has never received any letters of thanks. Furthermore, the postage to send letters abroad was quite expensive. Therefore, the station decided not to send replies for reception reports, Mauro Vasquez Gonzalez explained with chagrin.

After breakfast, we went to visit the broadcasting facilities, located at Jiron Anaximandro Vega No. 690, only two blocks from the general manager's house. It was in a one-storied building of cement blocks. Inside of the building, there was a control cabin, an announcing room and a disk and tape library with a large variety of music. Behind the studio building, there was another building of cement blocks, in which three transmitters and a diesel-driven generator of 10 kW were equipped. Two "FRANVEL" brand transmitters of 1 kW were actually utilized for the medium wave and shortwave outlets respectively. A "Collins" brand transmitter of 100 watts, which was formerly used for the transmissions on the nominal frequency of 6295 kHz, was out of service, however, it is still installed at the transmitting site to use for back-up operations. As January of 1995, the electricity in Chota was available only between 1800 and 0400 local time (i.e. 2300-0900 UTC). Therefore, at that time, the generator was used daily for the transmissions from early morning through the afternoon while the electricity service was not provided in the district of Chota. As Chota has the electricity supply for 24 hours a day since April of 1997, the station may utilize the generator only in case of an electricity power stoppage.