A few days ago, I was able to hear the Colombian station Emisora Voces Rovirenses from Málaga here in Salzburg on medium wave 1560 kHz. Málaga is located east of Santander and is the capital of the province of García Rovira. The city lies at an altitude of 2200 metres in the eastern cordillera of the Colombian Andes. The station has now confirmed reception.
Signals from Japan have been heard repeatedly in recent weeks, albeit mostly at low signal strength here in Central Europe. A good opportunity to hear NHK-2 stations is when broadcasting begins at around 20:55 UTC. At this time, all NHK-2 stations play the bright chimes of the ‘Musicbox’. Unfortunately, NHK no longer confirms reports. Here is my log from 20 October 2025. AziLoop, 40°.
774 2054 J JOUB NHK Radio 2, Akita (toh-aki) 8931 km
828 2054 J JOBB NHK Radio 2, Osaka/Habikino (kns-osk) 9214 km
873 2051 J JOGB NHK Radio 2, Kumamoto (kyu-kum) 9107 km
1017 2053 J JOLB NHK Radio 2, Fukuoka (kyu-fuk) 9029 km
1125 2051 J JOAD NHK Radio 2, Naha/Tomigusuku (kyu-oki) 9519 km
1134 1635 J JOQR NCB Bunka Hoso, Tokyo/Kawaguchi (kan-tok) 9308 km
1242 2055 J JOLF NBS Nippon Hoso, Tokyo/Kisarazu (kan-tok) 9359 km
1350 2059 J JOER RCC Chugoku Hoso, Etajima/Okimi (chg-hir) 9072 km
Today, antenna inspection on the 200-metre Beverage. Everything is ‘as new’ and has been receiving signals without any problems for two years. Thanks to Jan Šustr for his excellent Beverage boxes. https://hamparts.shop/beverages/
This afternoon, October 17, 2025, Guangxi GD Jingji Guangbo from China could be heard on the mediumwave band. The station, broadcasting on 1224 kHz from Nanning, the capital of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south of the People’s Republic of China, could be heard at around 16.00 UT in Salzburg on my AziLoop antenna (60°).
On 6 October 2025, beautiful signals from Asia were already being heard early on.
603 0025 IND Akashvani, Ajmer (RJ) 5779 km
765 0024 IND Akashvani, Dharwad A (KA) 6667 km
918 2202 CBG National Radio of Kampuchea, Phnom Penh (pph) 9200 km
918 0025 IND Akashvani, Suratgarh (RJ) 5518 km
972 1600 KOR HLCA KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, Dangjin (ccg) 8514 km
990 1558 IND Akashvani, Jammu A (JK) 5344 km
1071 1545 IND Akashvani, Rajkot (GJ) 5771 km
1107 1530 AFG Radio Afghanistan, Kabul/Pol-e Charkhi (kab) 4820 km
1134 1556 J JOQR NCB Bunka Hoso, Tokyo/Kawaguchi (kan-tok) 9308 km
1143 1700 IND Akashvani, Ratnagiri (MH) 6416 km
1143 1545 TWN Taiwan Ch¸ Yuyeh Kuangpo Tientai, Penghu/Jiangmei (PG) 9224 km
1206 1535 CHN Yeonbyeon Joseonmal Bangsong, Yanji/Longjing (JL) 8165 km
1242 1540 VTN VOV5, Cần Thơ/Thới Long (cnt) 9360 km
1260 1600 PAK Radio Pakistan, Peshawar (kpk) 5024 km
1530 2025 PHL DZME Kinse Trenta, Obando/Panghulo (bul) 10077 km
1557 1530 TWN Radio Taiwan International Chinese Channel, Kouhu (YL) 9270 km
1593 2030 CHN CNR1 Zhongguo zhi Sheng, Changzhou/NRTA623 (JS) 8576 km
AziLoop, 30 – 90°.
My AziLoop antenna system brings me great joy every day. Especially now in October, when the summer storms are over, the first Asian signals in the mediumwave band from China and India can already be received at around 15:30 UT, i.e. one hour (!) before sunset at my location. At this time of day, there are no interfering signals from Europe, so it is particularly worthwhile searching for stations from Asia.
DZME Kinse Trenta, Obando from the Philippines has been heard quite frequently in recent days at around 21:30 UT on the frequency 1530 kHz here in Salzburg. A little later, the Chinese station from Zhejiang takes over the frequency, followed by PEF Canal 1, Poiso, Madeira, with its music program until the early hours of the morning.
Update: Facebook has restored my account and apologized. Until next time? The group is now open again.
Facebook unexpectedly removed me from its platform: ‘Your Facebook account has been permanently deactivated. You requested a review of this decision, but we have again determined that your account or its activities violate our Community Standards. You cannot request another review.’ I have done nothing wrong there in 15 years, have always adhered to all the rules as an admin, invested far too much time there, and now my ‘activities violate our Community Standards’? Because I posted a link to the Mongolia Longwave DX PDF on my own website in the A-DX Facebook group? And a week earlier, I forwarded a post from Icom to the group thanking visitors to the UKW Tagung for their interest? And for that, you get banned twice by Facebook? Others dump their rubbish on FB every day, spread AI nonsense as truth, talk trash – as many know, this also happens in other groups on the subject of radio, and nothing happens there. It’s a shame about the group and the 1,855 hobbyists, but I don’t know of any real alternative for sharing images and audio, which was my idea 15 years ago when I founded the group as an addition to the A-DX mailing list. So now, after my expulsion by Facebook, the group is closed.
On 1 October 2025, only a few signals could be heard. Harbour Light of the Windwards, Carriacou/Tarleton Point – Grenada was the strongest signal from the Caribbean today in Salzburg at around 05 UT on 1400 kHz. AziLoop 270°.
And this morning, instead of the beach on Chuuk in Micronesia, it was cold weather at the Alfred Wegener Institute’s (AWI) Neumayer III polar research station in Antarctica. DPOGVN could also be received on 1,840 kHz early this morning here in Salzburg in FT8 digital mode.
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