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Made in China Wellbrook 1530 Loop Antenna?
Pigmeat:
One of the best antenna purchases I ever made was a small Tecsun 200 MW loop. It works both proximately and with a short piece of coax with plugs to fit your portable's and the antennas jack. Replace the flimsy included coax with some RG-73 or even some patch cord with mini stereo adapters and you're ready to roll. The thing has a tuning knob and covers the entire US MW band. I paid 20 bucks for it new. Not all Chinese radio and antenna products are junk, you've got to vet them carefully to get your money's worth.
Who's going to be the sacrificial penguin for the Chinese Wellbrook? Who knows, you might get a steerable balloon to help hang it?
alpard:
I feel the new Chinese Wellbrook 1530 is way over priced. The price we see in eBay will not be the actual total for the antenna unless buyer is in China.
When it arrives to buyers country, it is likely to smash import tax on top of that, which can be anything between 20-30% extra, which makes the antenna just too expensive for what it is.
A genuine Wellbrook 1530 Loop might be actually cheaper than the Chinese antenna. I would rather go for another Wellbrook loop for similar or less the price.
Sealord:
--- Quote from: Pigmeat on February 20, 2023, 1524 UTC ---One of the best antenna purchases I ever made was a small Tecsun 200 MW loop...
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Yep, I have the same one and it works very well with my Palstar.
Josh:
After watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PTu0g5W9do I have the feeling dual crossed MLA30s (with 1 meter copper wire or tubing as modded in the vid) would be a better setup at about half the price of the chicom knockoff. I suspect there will be unit-to-unit performance variations on MLA30s but you can adjust the gain of the thing with the internal pot.
alpard:
--- Quote from: Josh on February 20, 2023, 1904 UTC ---After watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PTu0g5W9do I have the feeling dual crossed MLA30s (with 1 meter copper wire or tubing as modded in the vid) would be a better setup at about half the price of the chicom knockoff. I suspect there will be unit-to-unit performance variations on MLA30s but you can adjust the gain of the thing with the internal pot.
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Wow, MLA-30 is not much different from Wellbrook 1530 in performance from the video (apart from LW, and the top band of Ham radio), and it is about 1/6 - 1/8 price of Wellbrook. It seems the best value for money commercial HF RX active loop antenna? Great video by the way, thanks for sharing.
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