Who’s RAEM?
Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel (December 24, 1903 – December 8, 1971) was a Soviet Arctic explorer, radio operator, doctor of geographical sciences (1938), and Hero of the Soviet Union (1938). Amateur radio callsigns: U3AA, UA3AA, RAEM. Krenkel was born in Bialystok , now Poland, to a German family. In 1924–1925 and 1927–1938, Ernst Krenkel was a…