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Bricon developed and
made by pigeon-fanciers for pigeon-fanciers |
BRICON was established under BAWIBO Electronics in 1997. Under the
foundations of a new company at the end of 2000, Bricon began to boom
and in no time at all its name was basking in the international
spotlight. Bricon is now represented in some 42 different countries,
being the actual market leader in a great many of them.
The fact that Bricon had been developed and produced in Belgium by
Belgium pigeon fanciers has certainly given it a big advantage over its
competition.
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The Belgian racing calendar features a great number
of races taking place from different liberation points at the same time.
Bricon has succeeded in mastering this rather complex situation with an
ultimately faultless system. Belgian fanciers recognised this fact and
therefore made the decision to choose Bricon, and as a result Bricon has
now captured 85% of the Belgium market. Attention to detail, no matter
how small is very important to Bricon, and as almost the entire staff of
the company are pigeon fanciers they have been able to combine their
technical know-how with their extensive pigeon experience to create and
develop a product that is “made for and by fanciers”. No matter what the
problem, Bricon has soon found a solution.
Each fine detail of the system illustrates the
influence of pigeon fanciers. One typical example of this is the Bricon
loft antennas on which the birds are detected. Fanciers are well aware
that what is required is an open field of detection, with no “dead
zones” and Bricon has achieved this. The Bricon antennas have fields
which overlap each other and therefore arriving birds are quickly
detected and recorded over the entire area of the antenna. The Bricon
loft antenna was soon accepted as the “the standard of registration”.
Bricon antenna are available in four sizes, the 1- field (14cm wide), 2-
field (28cm), 4- field (50cm) and the largest sized 6- field antenna
(72cm). Likewise each antenna is only 2cm thick, making them very easy
to install almost anywhere at a loft entrance. The fact that there is
registration over the entire surface length of the antenna, means that
there is no need to build or install any upper entry tunnels with a
Bricon antenna.
The use of entry tunnels will always slow the birds
entry into the loft, but are necessary on inferior antenna that have
dead zones, as the bird must be guided away from these zones and over
the operating field.
Bricon doesn’t take its position for granted and
every effort is taken to ensure that the latest technology is utilised
to serve the pigeon sport. The clocks (detecting units) have followed
the rapid evolution of the electronics market. The original Little
Bricon 100, 500 and 1000 clocks were replaced for the 2004 season by the
updated “LITTLE BRICON 1000” with an improved modern design and handy
new features.
A brand new model was also launched named
“SPEEDY”, a technically superb product that makes electronic clocking
possible on a budget, by taking it back to basics, with coupling,
training, basketing and of course clocking. Speedy has a capacity of 200
birds at any one time, more than enough for most lofts and can take up
to four loft antenna, giving between one and 24 fields. Speedy brings
the benefits of electronic clocking within the reach of anyone, but at a
price lower than a traditional clock. Speedy can be used together with
all Bricon add-ons and is fully capatible with the Lttle Bricon Model.
Getting started in ETS with the budget priced Speedy and later upgrading
to a higher full option solution is simple and perfectly possible.
Security is also paramount to Bricon. From the
outset, Bricon designed a safe housing to cover the inside of the clock,
which is unique and sealed at production. A system can only be attacked
by cracking its electronic driving system, but neither Speedy nor Little
Bricon will allow this to happen without leaving traces on the housing.
TNO reports prove the efficiency of this technique. Bricon is the only
system that is still investing in the future of the sport of pigeon
racing, with extensive research and development taking place at its
modern new building situated at Europark Oost 15c in 9100 Sint-Niklaas,
Belgium.