We’ve been long searching for a proper place where to be able
to listen, a place away from man-produced noise. After all the target of the
serious Dxer has always been to snatch weak signals from thin air, i.e. local
radio stations from far away lands.
Indeed our need to
find a place for our long BEVERAGES turned us to a more professional side so
different from our activity of home-brewn listeners. Also, finding suitable
infrastructures has helped us greatly in exploiting the appropriate equipment,
as well as in entertaining a relatively small group of people.
After a short and unlucky experience in the Aquileia area, a flash of
intuition (plus some friends) by mate Valter Comuzzi brought us to the "Bruno De CANDIDO" airfield near
Piancada in the province of Udine, north east Italy (45° 47’ 30” North – 13° 4’
30” East). A lot of mosquitoes but also matchless quietness welcomed us.
At first we were
hosted in a room of the local Flight School ‘Club Alistella’, when this was not
busy with school participants. Then step by step our experience has got bigger
and bigger, just imagine our early four or five sleepless rash attempts. Then a
splitter previously tested in a Dxpedition in Sweden made the difference, along
with home made switches and a great deal of passion and determination.
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT :
Francesco Clemente, Elio Fior, Valdi Dorigo and Valter Comuzzi during one of
our early sessions.
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A great deal of
achievements and some disappointments due to propagation have endowed these
four years of night time expeditions to the ‘Friulana Lagoon’. Hard work too
has been part of the picture: building in the evening and dismantling the next
morning - not to hamper the activity of air traffic – has been common since
then.
Nevertheless our
listening techniques have been evolving and we can now boast new accessories,
more suitable equipment for our demands and… new friends too! The initial group
has widened to new enthusiasts and guests.
An
important achievement was the participation of the ‘core group’ in three winter
Dxpeditions to PARKALOMPOLO (Sweden) (67° 73’
North – 22° 85’ East), a sort of Ph.D.
in Dxing in the arctic silence of Swedish Lapland.

Comuzzi at PIA29 in the new room
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Thanks to some
restructuring in the airfield buildings in summer 2006 we now have a new exclusive room of our
own, solely devoted to our radio
listening activity.
In spring 2007 we
buried the greatest part of coaxial cables and we’ve been given the opportunity
to permanently keep some antennas there!
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The aim of this
website is not to celebrate ourselves: it’s just to thank all the people that
have been working for all these years to build an effective and warm structure
for our hobby. And – last but not least –
we would like it to be a spur for all the people who want to venture
new listening paths, i.e. experience suitable
locations for extreme listening.
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