HK0AB 1962 Bajo Nuevo

Back: HK3SO Fernando Gargrecht, W8FGX Jake Schott, W4CKB Bev Cavender, HK3LX Edmundo Quinones, HK0AI Victor Abrahams, HK5EV Carlos Valencia, W6HAW Boots Olsen, Enrique Valencia (son of HK5EV).
Front: W4QVJ Ed Cushing, George Allendorf , W4DQS Dale Strieter, HK1QQ Herman Olarte.
This group photo was taken aboard the M.V. Arcabra approaching San Andres Island at the conclusion of the trip.

Carlos HK5EV operating the phone station.

Ed W4QVJ (left) operating the phone station while George Alfendorf (right) does the logging.

Bajo Nuevo looking west from the extreme eastern point of the island, with W4DQS and W8FGX relaxing beneath the Telrex TC-99 beam and crank-up tower.
The CW tent in the forground, the phone tent in the background and generator in between.
Bajo Nuevo is about 850' long and 35 ' wide depending on the tides.

Jack W8FGX operating the CW station (with logging pencil in mouth).

QSL from the estate of W3WGH / W3GH
Photos from Don Chesser W4KVX, DX Magazine #167, May 26, 1962
Photos courtesy of Nereo