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Re: [IRCA] Greetings from Florence
- Subject: Re: [IRCA] Greetings from Florence
- From: "Michael Yule" <michaeldyule@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:53:22 +0000
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Buona sera Andrea e grazie! This is good information for sure, and kind
of falls in line with what I was thinking would happen. IÃm about 2
minutes away from the Via Romana entrance to the Boboli, and was
thinking that I would put together one of those hard shell briefcases
with my ELAD and laptop in it, and also have the FSL to carry with me
and go and sit on one of the benches by the big fountain until the
Carabinieri wonders what I'm up to with the strange looking gear! I can
even take a local bus to Fiesole which is only a few more minutes away
and is in the hills overlooking the city which would no doubt be even
better. I've been thinking of a Tecsun as well, maybe a 660, it seems to
have very good reviews.
I really appreciate your offer of help, and once I get things pulled
together I'll let you know and find out how you think I might be able to
get the best use of what I have. BTW thanks also for the audio clip,
great stuff! I'll may be get down to Sicily in August next year (or
maybe Tropea) and I'd definitely try and bring my DX gear.
Thanks again!
Michael
------ Original Message ------
From: "Andrea Lawendel" <lawendel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Michael Yule" <michaeldyule@xxxxxxxxx>; "Mailing list for the
International Radio Club of America" <irca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 27-Nov-2017 6:12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCA] Greetings from Florence
Hi Michael, buona sera!
I've enjoyed your florentine report on IRCA's mailing list and on
behalf of the small Italian community devoted to serious AM band DX I
wish you a warm welcome in our country!
Living in a crowded urban area, albeit largely built at least two
centuries ago, will not help your DX monitoring. The situation usually
gets dramatically better if you're lucky enough to spot some
countryside location (even better a seaside one) within a reasonable
distance. Sometimes, it even helps having a town-park (like the Boboli,
in your case) at hand. Anyway, I strongly suggest you to include a
non-SDR portable in your portable equipment, an ultralight like the
Tecsun 390, or the PL660 would be fine: it can assist you in further
exploring your "remote" opportunities. [hereby attached, via my Google
Drive link, please find a short clip of Taiwan's superpower on 1557
logged on a beach in Sicily with a barefoot Tecsun PL390, to show how
it feels like, one can experience similar receptions on some TA
signals]
â
IMG_0011.MOV
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cagruSYfnJBcB0hqjEnYIxSCCSuAS9Pr/view?usp=drive_web>
â
Essentially, there's a single geographically spread Medium Waves
community active here. Some of us are located in the North West
(Lombardy/Piedmont), some other in the North East (Friuli Venezia
Giulia) or in Emilia Romagna. Very few of us are able to DX from home,
however, and many relies upon a few remoted (Perseus based) listening
posts. There's even a longwire/beverage antennas site mid-way between
Venice and Trieste, close to the Adriatic Sea coast.
I'll be happy to assist you in your hunt for new DX point of
references, so please don't hesitate asking.
Andy Lawendel
Milan
www.radiopassioni.it
whatsapp +39-348-2245512
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Michael Yule <michaeldyule@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi everyone - as some of you saw about 4 months ago, my wife and I
moved to Florence Italy, which explains the complete absence of
loggings from me ever since. We spent the first 3 months in a tourist
apartment while we looked for a permanent home, and we found one and
moved in thereat the beginning of November. Now we are getting
settled, and have some furniture etc I have been assessing DX
possibilities from this location and will be unpacking the ELAD and
trying to get a sense of RFI levels. We live on the third floor of a 4
floor 15th century palazzo in the Oltrarno district (the 'left bank'
of the Arno, so to speak) so I shouldnt really have to contend too
much with rebar faraday cages, but I do look into an interior
courtyard on the balcony, with no real clear view outward - one story
of the building completely surrounds my location, about 25 metres
away. The balcony is the full length of the apartment, but is very
narrow.
It is quite likely that I will find a fair degree of RFI once I get
things set up, and that I will want to go out on mini-dxpeditions into
the Tuscan countryside (which starts about a 20 minute bus ride away),
so I am thinking I will want to do as portable a setup as I can. So
this is leading me to believe that what I should do is build (or buy,
if possible!) a broadband FSL and be sort of a mini-European Gary
DeBock. This will give me the portability I want, and also make it so
I dont have to try and erect an antenna either inside (at which
thought I shudder, having just come from the realm of the fantastic
DKAZ...) or navigate any potential problems with neighbours or the
buildings owner when trying to erect one outside on or around the
balcony. Just as an aside, the place I live was, as I say, built in
the 15th century by the Frescobaldi family and it is still owned by
them, the current Marchese (Marquis) living on the floor above me.
So the next steps are going to be to review all the literature on FSL
construction, decide how big I want to go, and start assembling
materials. I dont know if Guy Atkins ever published anything on making
the FSL broadband, but if he did could someone send me a link? And if
anyone has one for sale, please let me know as well!
Thanks very much everyone, I'll let you know as things progress. I
might be able to help a bit on TA identification once I get going
since I will be closer to the source as well!
Kind regards,
Michael Yule
Firenze, Italia
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