Today, it's time for another! This is a unique one, for which we don't know a whole lot about the sender beyond basic details. It's HR5NLC, from Noe Leopoldo Cruz in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras. It was mailed in March 1966 and the front of the card is what's most interesting to me. The text states Cinco Niñas Lindas Copanecas, which translates to Five Beautiful Copan Girls. Indeed, there are five illustrations of women from Santa Rosa de Copán with 1960s hairstyles. Is one of them Noe?
Atop this illustration are the postmark and the Honduras stamp, which commemorates the Honduran participation in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. See the full sheet below.
That's about it. I can't find anything else about Noe Leopoldo Cruz or Cinco Niñas Lindas Copanecas, beyond the fact that Noe appears in the 1989 and 1993 amateur radio callbooks (under call sign HR5NC in both instances, a change from HR5NLC — and because I'm slow on the update I just figured out that NLC must stand for Noe Leopoldo Cruz).
I hope that someone with an interest in Santa Rosa de Copán and/or ham radio history might stumble upon this blog post and provide more information! And I'm happy that I was able to preserve this QSL card for posterity.
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