Wellbrook shuts up shop.

[Smithdoor]

Why would someone buy one ?

They so cheap to build the hardest part is bending the PCV tubing (heat and sand makes the bend)

{Maybe more making there own today. }

Dave

Originally Posted by Andrew2

Not really sure where this belongs, but it seems that Wellbrook Communications is shutting its doors after 27 years making and selling excellent wideband loop antennas. Andy Ikin is retiring and once stocks are sold, that'll be it.

https://www.wellbrook.uk.com/loopantennas/

https://swling.com/blog/2023/03/well...-closing-shop/

[stevehertz]

I have to laugh, a lot of people refer to the Wellbrook as being "simple", yet it took someone to reverse engineer one and publish the findings before anyone started to build (copy) them!

I found Andrew easy to deal with and in what was the dying days of the company he made a balun to feed the output of the Wellbrook into a vintage radio for me and supplied it FOC after I'd bought my Wellbrook.

[Smithdoor]

I guess it from point a view.

Dave

Originally Posted by stevehertz

I have to laugh, a lot of people refer to the Wellbrook as being "simple", yet it took someone to reverse engineer one and publish the findings before anyone started to build (copy) them!

I found Andrew easy to deal with and in what was the dying days of the company he made a balun to feed the output of the Wellbrook into a vintage radio for me and supplied it FOC after I'd bought my Wellbrook.

[Julesomega]

An equivalent commercial product is the NTi MegaLoop FX Active Loop Antenna at €548. NTI make a range of H-field antennas, including a passive version at €199 but this requires a seriously huge loop of 5m dia. which I think would lose the near-field rejection of local qrn

[Bazz4CQJ]

In the present day, I struggle to figure out why anyone would buy a commercial mag loop at the prices they ask for. Following Wellbrook's opening of the "mag-loop era", the internet has become flooded with homebrew designs. Anyone starting a "literature review" on the web now would need some time to complete it.

Taking it one step further, there has been a great deal of interest recently in small loop antennas for transmission. This follows a general crack down on the use of large HF antennas in many built-up areas of both the US and EU. The significant downside with the transmitting loops is the very high RF voltages which appear on them.

B

[Smithdoor]

I dod know cost so must
Part hobby for me is making look like it was made in factory. Saving was not a part

Dave

Originally Posted by Julesomega

An equivalent commercial product is the NTi MegaLoop FX Active Loop Antenna at €548. NTI make a range of H-field antennas, including a passive version at €199 but this requires a seriously huge loop of 5m dia. which I think would lose the near-field rejection of local qrn