{"id":56181,"date":"2023-03-23T18:19:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T22:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=56181"},"modified":"2023-03-23T18:19:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T22:19:13","slug":"wellbrook-communications-is-closing-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/wellbrook-communications-is-closing-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellbrook Communications is closing shop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mark Fahey’s Wellbrook antenna<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following news from the Wellbrook Communications homepage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wellbrook Communications will cease trading at the end of April 2023.<\/strong>
\nThis is due to retirement.<\/strong>
\nI would like to thank everyone for their custom over the past 27 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No doubt, the venerable Wellbrook loop has helped thousands radio enthusiasts mitigate RFI\/QRM and make it possible to once again DX from home.<\/p>\n

We wish Wellbrook owners a wonderful retirement!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, who shares the following news from the Wellbrook Communications homepage: Wellbrook Communications will cease trading at the end of April 2023. This is due to retirement. I would like to thank everyone for their custom over the past 27 years. No doubt, the venerable Wellbrook loop has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3607,3],"tags":[5875,4301,5471],"class_list":["post-56181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-news","tag-dennis-dura","tag-wellbrook","tag-wellbrook-loop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eC9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58634,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/andrew-ikin-of-wellbrook-communications-has-passed-away\/","url_meta":{"origin":56181,"position":0},"title":"Andrew Ikin of Wellbrook Communications has passed away","author":"Thomas","date":"January 6, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to a number of SWLing Post readers who sent me this message--a re-post from the IRCA mailing list: Death of Andrew Ikin- Wellbrook Communications From: Tracey Gardner Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2024 13:10:23 EST I am the bearer of very sad news. 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