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Published by CQ Contest Jan 1997.

My interest in contesting has grown slowly since 1985. In that year I worked in my first CQ WPX CW. and competed mostly with older hams here in Tajik. I was a young DXer. making a lot of QSOs. and I was very interested in DXing. Since that time I have worked in many contests, but mostly in the CQWW and WPX. In those contests, the amount of DX is outstanding, and each contest brought me new ones. I never concern rated on the plate I received in the results. Each year I made 300 to 500 QSOs in the CQWW-enough for first plate in Tajikistan!

Опубликовано в журнале "Радиолюбитель" 11/1992.

Рано утром 7 марта 1992 года началась наша экспедиция. Все были на ногах задолго до рассвета: одни носили вещи в машину, другие готовили завтрак, третьи затевали последний раунд "отговоров" в надежде убедить нас отказаться от рискованной затеи...

Published CQ Magazine. May 1993.

This article concerns a major DXpedition to a very dangerous place at a very dangerous time. It is also a tale of international cooperation and demonstrates the spirit of amateur radio.

The YA5MM DXpedition actually had its beginnings on the roof of a five-story apartment building in Dushanbe Tajikistan in August 1991. RT4UQ (Vasily, who like me is from Kiev in the Ukraine), UJ8JMM (Nodir, from Dushanbe), and UJ8JCQ (Alex, whose roof we were on), and I had just returned ftorn a successful DXpedition under the callsign UJ1K to Kulyabskaya oblast in the mountainous regions of Tajikistan. We were on UJ8JCQ's roof helping Alex reassemble and erect his antennas, which we had used in expedition.