Wellbrook Communications shutting down by end of April '23

Wellbrook Communications, supplier of loop antennas has put up a notice on their website https://www.wellbrook.uk.com/loopantennas/ that they are closing down by end of April'2023.

Wellbrook Communications are the only UK company that supplies a complete range of Long wave loops, Medium wave (AM) loops and Shortwave (HF) receiving loop antennas for radio amateurs and listener

hobbyists. 

An antenna that speaks without listening

Freed from the textbook symmetry between transmission and reception, the device could be a boon to communications.

Read the story by Johanna L. Miller at :

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.7254

Indian researchers claim to have developed "world's smallest antenna"

Researchers Sunday claimed to have invented the world's smallest super compact ultra-wideband (UWB) planar antenna that can find application in homes and the military among other domains.

Academician Professor Srikanta Pal, who is with the Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, and his research scholar Mrinmoy Chakraborty have developed the antenna.

"Our antenna is the world's smallest at 14 mm X 11 mm, with much more than a 10:1 bandwidth," Chakraborty, a PhD student with BIT-Mesra, said.

More at : http://tinyurl.com/d9o95l6

Korner 15.11 87-108 MHz FM Yagi Review

Review of Peter Korner designed 15.11 FM yagi Todd Emslie :

 

http://home.iprimus.com.au/toddemslie/Korner-15-11-FM-yagi.html

 

Qatar Media Corporation Chooses Thomson Broadcast Anti-Fading Antenna

The state broadcaster of Qatar, Qatar Media Corporation, has gone live with a Thomson Broadcast (formerly the transmission division of Grass Valley) customised and anti-fading antenna for its national AM radio service.

More at ;

http://www.4rfv.co.uk/industrynews.asp?id=117425

"BCL Life 2010" published in Japan

The annual magazine for serious DXers "BCL Life 2010" (all in Japanese) was published on March 29 by Sansai Books Co. Ltd. They published "Restarting BCL 2008" and "Restarting BCL 2009" respectively in 2008 and 2009, and succeeded in making many middle-ages (40-60 years old), who were once the "radio boys" in 1970's, to resume their DX listening hobby with more sophisticated sense. This is the first Japanese annual magazine for serious DX listeners. "BCL Life 2010" consists of, "Practical Use of PERSEUS receiver", "DX life in the apartment houses", "Making Small Loop Antenna", "Know more about NHK-World Radio Japan", "Little DXpediton with Antenna", "Practical Study of Accessory Equipments for DXing", "DXing in Overseas", "DXing with old Panasonic COUGAR2200 receiver", "Chinese Radio Catalogue", "QSLs & Screenshots of Overseas TV/FM DXing", "Document on St.Helena Day 2009", "DRM reception on shortwave", "DXing with military receivers", "DXing North American MW stations", "Challenging to Overseas TV/FM DXing", "Improving the power of external antenna", In-depth introduction of 13 shortwave stations with Japanese language programs, 8 stations with foreign language programs. A5 160 pages, with a supplement B6 64 pages "BCL Radio Frequency Data Book"(listing 3300 waves on shortwave). All the articles are written by active DX specialists in Japan.

See http://www.sansaibooks.co.jp/cgi-bin/list.cgi?detail=383

Takahito Akabayashi, Tokyo, Japan

(Via DXLD yg)

TG39 Wooden Indoor MW Loop Antenna from ebay seller Tao Qu

TG39 WOODEN INDOOR MEDIUMWAVE LOOP ANTENNA
SPECIAL DESIGNED FOR MW BAND
Great news! We have the new item - TG39 wooden indoor MW loop antenna available in our eBay Store (the eBay item number are 370000079325 and 370000079240)!
This TG39 antenna is special designed by the designer of DE1103 radio. It has the very good quality and performance for the broadcasting MW band reception use. This TG39 antenna is sold for couple months in China domestic market and get the confirmation by many Chinese radioer already, now we introduce it for worldwide radioer via eBay!
Welcome to visit the item lists in following for more detailed information about this new model, and welcome to contact us for any questions.
The item we are selling in this list is the TG39 wooden indoor mediumwave loop antenna which designed for the broadcasting mediumwave band signal reception using. This TG39 antenna has the frequency coverage on mediumwave broadcasting band, it has the good performance to improve the signal reception when working in the space which has the bad EMI noise impact or strong shielding conditions.
This TG39 antenna is designed and manufactured by a Chinese radio manufacturer located in Shenzhen, Southern China.
Item Description
Working frequency coverage on mediumwave broadcasting band: 530KHz to 1710KHz.
No battery or the external power supply required, green design.
Dedicated tuning knob for the frequency tuning.
No connection cable required to work with the radio which has the inside ferrite mediumwave antenna.
Built-in output socket to output the signal directly for using with the radio which has the external mediumwave antenna input socket (we don't provide the connection cable for this application).
The dimension of the loop (side length) is 280 x 280 mm / 11 x 11 inch.
Easy to setup and use with the radios which has the inside ferrite mediumwave antenna or has the external mediumwave antenna input socket (we don't provide the connection cable for this application).

Have a look at this antenna at :
http://tiny.cc/qMsq0