Authentic vintage QSL card from OA8AQ (Eddie Lind), a ham radio operator stationed in Pucallpa, Peru, and affiliated with JAARS – Jungle Aviation and Radio Service, the air-arm of Wycliffe Bible Translators. Confirming a 1968 QSO with K9PEN, this card is both a collectible piece of amateur radio history and a photographic snapshot of Amazonian life.


🖼️ Front Features:

• Stunning black-and-white photo of Amazonian villagers in a canoe with a floatplane overhead

• Clearly printed call sign: OA8AQ

• Operator name and city: Eddie Lind – Pucallpa, Peru


📬 Back Details:

• Full QSO confirmation: June 7, 1968

• Equipment: Swan transmitter / 500 receiver

• Antenna: Quad

• Addressed to K9PEN, Robert F. Vlk, in Brookfield, Illinois

• JAARS/Wycliffe printed text describing missionary aviation work in Peru

• Clear Lima postal stamp


🏆 A unique combination of:

• Ham radio heritage

• Missionary/aviation history

• Amazon region photography


✅ Carefully preserved and ships in archival sleeve with backing.