[CQ-Contest] RAEM contest in December

[Dmitri Bagno RW3FO]

Colleagues,

The Russian Cup "Memorial of Ernst Krenkel" ("RAEM" CW Contest 1998)
will be held in the end of Decembed. Traditionaly, it was national
(fromer USSR, then CIS, espesially Russian) contest, nevertheless
participants from around the world are always welcome.

This contest is especially interesting for "RAEM" award hunters,
because, during the contest, a special station of Krenkel radioclub
of Russia with memorial callsign RAEM will operate, and contacts
with it will give points for "RAEM" award. Look for the RAEM on 40,
80 & (seldom) 160m on December 19, at 21 till 01 UTC, and on 40, 20,
15 & (seldom) 10m on December 20 at 05 till 09 UTC.

RAEM contest rules can be found on Krenkel radioclub website at
http://www.mai.ru/~crc/crc_e/contest/raem_e.txt
& its US mirror at
http://www.rossiya.net/crc_e/contest/raem_e.txt

For more information about Ernst Krenkel (RAEM was his HAM callsign),
tireless radio amateur, famous polar investigator, doctor of geography,
a pioneering member and main radio communications operator of many
Russian Arctic winter research expeditions, as well as a veteran of
Russian Arctic polar station "North Pole-1", see the pages
http://www.mai.ru/~crc/crc_e/kr_bi_e.htm  &
http://www.rossiya.net/crc_e/kr_bi_e.htm
In these pages you will find the link to "RAEM" award rules.

--Dmitri (RW3FO)

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Dmitri Bagno
Radio amateur call sign RW3FO
Email: bagno at mai.ru       
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Krenkel Central Radioclub of Russia
P.O.Box 88 Moscow, home of CQ-M contest,
"P-150-C", "RAEM", "P-100-O" awards
Web: http://www.mai.ru/~crc
Mirror: http://www.rossiya.net/crc.htm

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