QST Honored with E.T. Krenkel Medal for Outstanding Global Contributions to Amateur Radio
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QST on Fri May 25 23:12:53 2018
05/25/2018
The Russian National Academy of Researches and Discoveries has honored QST with an E.T. Krenkel Medal for "outstanding global contributions to Amateur Radio."
The award's namesake, Ernst Teodorovich Krenkel, was a radio amateur who, over the years, used the call signs RAEM, U3AA, and UA3AA. Born in Poland, Krenkel was an Arctic explorer who took part in the first Soviet "drifting station," North Pole-1. He was made a "Hero of the Soviet Union" in 1938 for his exploits.
Krenkel's son, T.E. Krenkel, is among the four signatories to the award certificate, this being the 76th certificate presented. The younger Krenkel, a professor at the Moscow Technical College of Telecommunication and Informatics, said his father was an avid radio amateur who served as the first chairman of the Central Radio Club in the USSR.
E.T. Krenkel's image appears on postage stamps from the USSR and Russia, and he authored a biography entitled My Callsign is RAEM. Several prominent radio amateurs have received the E.T. Krenkel Medal. In the era when all radio amateurs received QSL cards via Box 88, Moscow, Krenkel was allowed to have his own postal address on his QSLs and was issued the non-standard RAEM call sign.
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