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°.
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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.
Checking the AziLoop antenna. Everything looks very good, one boom has twisted slightly, but the 10° difference will not be heard by the good SWL. Let’s hope for better radio weather!
Radio Islam from Lenasia can received around 22 UT here in Salzburg on my 145° Beverage on 1548 kHz. Radio Islam’s offset is very stable at 1547.990. The Greek station makes it very difficult. But what free channel isn’t occupied by a Greek station these days? Terrible.
Beautiful mediumwave signals from the Caribbean after midnight: PEF Canal 1 from Madeira on 1530, Caribbean Radio Lighthouse on 1160, Harbour Light of the Windwards on 1400 and Radio Monumental from Ecuador could be heard in Salzburg around 23 UT. ZNS1 National Voice, Nassau, Bahamas, was also heard on 1540 around 2325 UT. AziLoop, 270°.
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