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About Boris Knezovic T93Y

I am born on 23 November 1970. in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and I got interested in Amateur radio in early 1987 when I joined Radio Club "Novo Sarajevo" - T91ENS (YU4ENS then). In the Summer of 1987 I passed "C" (HF novice) class exam which allowed operation on 80, 40 and part of 15 meters band.

After the first QSO's with local stations on 80m, in early 1988 I got interested in DX and was spending most of my operating time working USA in 15m novice sub band (21.100-21.150kHz) with KENWOOD TS-440SAT and 2 el. QUAD located at the top of the 25m high building. At the end of 1988 I jumped in the CQ WW SSB and CQ WW CW Contests but my primary interest at that time was working new countries. My first real contest was OK DX Contest 1988 when I won competition against guys in YU4EGL...

In September 1989 I passed "B" (Advanced) class exam which opened whole new world and allowed me to operate on 8 out of 9 HF bands (the only band out of reach was 30m). I got even more interested in contesting and DX-ing what resulted with permanent participation in all contest as YU4ENS or 4N4U.

After the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and change of callsigns to T9A-T9Z block, I continued to be active, together with other friends in the club, as T91ENS... During the period 1992-1995 I was member of T9S team which commemorated 10 years of Olympic games in Sarajevo, T9A team which operated WPX CW and IARU 1994, and T99MT which was used from T91ENS in all three CQ WW Contests in 1995.

In early 1995 I was licensed with my personal call for the first time. My choice was T94EU, but I was using it only until April 1996 when I passed "A" (Extra) class exam changed it to T93Y. Since then I made about 30,000 QSO's with 317 DXCC countries using CW, SSB and RTTY on all HF bands and 6m.

Later in 1996, together with Danny, T93M; Edin, T97M and few other operators, I operated as member of Sarajevo Contest Group team - T9DX. That was a great experience and warming up for the operations that will come later.

I did my first Contest expedition, together with Edin, T97M, in May 1998. Thanks to our host Ivo, 9A3A/5B4ADA, and our Cyprus friends Andreas, 5B4LP, Marios, 5B4WN and Paris, 5B4XF I was able to operate from 5B4NC Club station and have reached fist place in SO 20m LP Category of the CQ WPX CW Contest as 5B4/T93Y.

In November 1998 we (Edin, T97M and me) received invitation from Ali, A61AJ to operate his great station in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. That was my first experience working in Multi-Multi environment and 5 operators (Rich, KE3Q; Bernie, W3UR; Sem, T94S/PA4AO; Edin, T97M and me) operated 4 stations and set the new Asian Multi-Multi CQ WW CW record. Same crew, reinforced by Jeff, K1ZM; Phil, N6ZZ; Rol, K3RA; Danny, T93M; Sejo, T97C and John, W0UN, set the Asian Multi-Multi record even higher in CQ WW CW 1999. That is the operation I am really proud of and that record will most likely stay until the peak of the next solar cycle.

Other contest operations worth to mention are my third place in LowPower category of CQ WW 160m CW in 1998, and operation in ARRL SSB 2002 from the QTH of Vic, N4TO, together with Danny, T93M; Chuck, N4DL and one half of three-times winning WRTC team, Dan, K1TO. Talking about the WRTC, I should mention that I was visitor in WRTC Slovenia 2000 and referee to VE7SV/VE7AHA Canada team in WRTC Finland 2002.

Upcoming operation from Martinique will be my first full-time operation in All Band category. Please work me in the contest on as many bands as possible and help me to stay awake HI. In return I will keep you awake when you go to the Contest expedition HI...

73's Boris T93Y