Tonight, there were again some nice signals from southern Africa on the mediumwave band: the religious station Radio Pulpit from Pretoria could be heard on 657 kHz via the transmitter in Meyerton, preceded by Magic 828 from Klipheuwel on 828 kHz and now Radio Lesotho on 639 kHz. Beverage 200 m, direction 145°.
Last night, January 1, 2026, the new year brought some very nice signals from southern Africa on the mediumwave band. I was able to hear the following on my Africa Beverage antenna in Salzburg:
639 2255 LSO Radio Lesotho, Maseru/Lancer’s Gap, 8709 km
828 2338 AFS Magic 828, Klipheuwel, 9089 km
1179 2202 MOZ Emissor Provincial de Zambezia, Quelimane, 7683 km
1260 2203 MOZ Emissor Provincial do Niassa, Lichinga, 7155 km
1548 2345 AFS Radio Islam International, Lenasia, 8391 km
I was particularly pleased to receive Emissor Provincial do Niassa, which only became possible after Radio Dechovka was switched off on 1260.
Today, 400 metres of beverage wire cleared of ice. Mechanically, everything is perfect, nothing broken.
For now, my AziLoop dream is over. Despite the Spiderbeam “Heavy Duty” mast and good guy wires. But I’m not giving up, the antenna worked too well for that!
Radio Vanuatu can now at Friday, December 19, 2025 be heard after 1830 UT on 5040 kHz in the former “tropical band” with Christmas music. The transmission location is Empten Lagoon, 15,970 km away.
AziLoop Antenne, 45°, WinRadio G33 SDR.
At that time, C60 or, better still, C90 cassettes were used for recording. Later, when the first SDR receivers appeared, the “hard drive” could not be large enough. Nowadays, these mechanically vulnerable, relatively slow but cheap HDD disks are being replaced by affordable SSD storage. That’s why my station computer is now getting a Samsung 990 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD with 4 terabytes of storage and sequential read/write speeds of up to 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s, respectively, to massively speed up the large amounts of data involved in recording and listening to the mediumwave band. The two additional 8 TB HDDs will continue to be used for archiving.
In recent days, there have been repeated good signals from South and Central America, even though the sun is not playing along in the mediumwave band at the moment. This morning, I was able to hear Radio Adventista on 1560 kHz and BBN Radio on 1350 kHz, both from Panama, in Salzburg. AziLoop, 270°.
The TOP DX RADIOCLUB invite you to the annual TOP 10 DX OF THE YEAR contest.Start 1 December 2025. All details can be found on our website:
The mediumwave station NHK 2 Okinawa in Tomisiro City confirmed today by post that it had received their morning broadcast on 1125 kHz. This means that I now have mediumwave confirmation of reception from the Ryūkyū Islands in the Pacific both at the end of the evening broadcast and at the start of the early morning broadcast.
Early this morning, 17 November 2025, Radio Adventista from Panama could be heard on mediumwave 1560 kHz in Salzburg. The station broadcasts from Llano Bonito, a corregimiento in the district of Chitré, Herrera province, with a population of 9,798. Since 2012, Panama has been divided into a total of 693 of these corregimientos.
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