[RTTY] New call with no numbers

[Ktfrog007 at aol.com]

RAEM was a famous Russian ham call back in the 60s USSR.  It was from  an 
Arctic explorer ship, the S/S Cheluskin.  The ship was smashed in the  ice in 
1934 and Ernst Krenkel, the radio operator, became a hero in the rescue  
and inherited the call as his ham call.  At the time it was the only USSR  ham 
call that started with R.
 
I also worked a Soviet polar expedition UPOL12 in 1963.  My guess is  that 
probably wasn't a legal QSO since it wasn't an amateur station.  But  what 
the heck.  I've got both QSLs and they are among my  most prized ones.
 
73,
Kermit, AB1J or ABAJ when I'm in a real hurry.