Russian Female Ham Operators R3TM & R1BIG making waves from icebreaker Krassin (Callsign R1LK)

Ham Radio weekend in with Maria R3TM. Part 1: the historic Icebreaker Krassin. Launched as the Svyatogor in 1916. She was the most powerful icebreaker worldwide. Krassin is very well known in Amateur Radio world: Umberto Nobile expedition to the North Pole was rescued by this icebreaker after the Russian Radio Amateur Nikolai Schmidt caught via home made HF radio station the S-O-S signal from distressed expedition. Part 2 will be: our visit to the Radio Museum, how we heard the astronauts on 2 m band, how we surprised the operators by taking turns working portable on the same frequency :-) If you would like to help me in the creation of optimistic Ham content please consider joining my Patreon or Youtube community : To watch more recent videos: My personal webpage: My other social media