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.
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