Tuesday 10 January 2017

Bonito Boni whip versus Wellbrook ALA1530: Test #4 winner: Wellbrook

Hi there, here is the next MW band comparison test for these two antennas - a signal from WMEX Boston Talk Radio on 1510 kHz. Sometimes this station can almost boom in over the Atlantic to my QTH in Oxford, UK. However, two nights ago, their signal could, at best, be described as quite weak, but with some discernible audio using the Elad FDM DUO and Wellbrook ALA1530. However, when switching over to the Boni whip, the signal was completely buried under amplified local noise, thus another disapointing result.

I still believe the delta in performance of these two antennas will be significantly less in a quiet location and to this end, I will be conducting another test at the woods in Oxfordshire. I want the Boni whip to succeed because a) I've spent over £100 on it and b) it would be great to have a very compact antenna that peformed as well as, or even nearly as well as the Wellbrook to use on DXpeditions. Three more test videos to come, all of which target shortwave signals. 

Thanks for watching.



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