[IRCA] Greetings from Florence

["Michael Yule" <michaeldyule@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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