Ham radio signal helps save Merle Elson’s life
In the middle of nowhere, Russian Robinson Club member Merle Elson, 65, felt a weird pain in his chest. The New Mexico resident was with fellow members Yuri Sushkin, Yuri Zaruba and Alexander Kuznetsov on a weeklong expedition at the end of July on Chirikof Island, 180 miles southwest of Kodiak city. They had to…
