VR3E 1957 Christmas Island, Eastern Kiribati

My friend, Herb Welch, ex-W5YKU, worked VR3E on June 1, 1957 on ten meters phone. Herb remembers the QSO well. During the QSO the operator—D. H. Lester, ex- G3FYW—explained that he would be on the island for only a short time. He was involved in the preparation for British Nuclear tests that would begin later that year.
--W5KNE

Courtesy of W5KNE
From the estate of W7OEB