A new year a new beginning: as 2026 has overtaken 2025 it’s a good time to crunch some numbers.
Caveat: all my logs were fed into the fmlist database and the analysis from my and Belgian logs are entirely based on the data provided to the fmlist.
This means Belgian logs not entered into the fmlist are unknown to me.
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TROPO
1153 Tropo logs were entered in my fmlist logbook, the furthest distance being 887 km (BBC Radio Scotland, Knockmore on May 14). 210 different stations from 7 countries were received in 2025: BEL, CZE, D, DNK, F, G, HOL.
With the free FMLIST DX Log Analyzer you can input your logs downloaded from the fmlist logbook in .csv format and study these logs in tremendous detail.
What about all Belgian FMDXers? What did they log? To find out I used DXLog 3.0.
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10 FMDXers entered 3.180 logs. They logged 702 stations from 10 countries: AUT, BEL, CZE, BEL, DNK, E, F, G, HOL, LUX. The furthest log was from Spain on August 18: 1014 km Europa FM from Galar/El Perdón-Bordatxar. As there was lots of Sporadic E towards BEL at the time, this might not have been a TROPO log.
SPORADIC E
My best es logs before 2025 were Lebanon on July 11 2022 and Israel on May 24 2019.
On a glorious and long lasting June 4 2025 however I was able to log Space Radio, Gülüsta on 87.5 MHz and on 92.0 MHz Baku Hit FM both from the Republic of Azerbaijan.
That wasn’t all as recordings revealed 91.90 MHZ Radio Varzesh from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Details on this blog page (Map).
What else was logged in 2025?
On the OIRT band 160 logs were registered, marking 96 stations from 3 countries (BLR, RUS and UKR).
CCIR produced 3320 log entries. 1525 stations from 42 countries were received: ALB, ALG, AUT, AZE, BIH, BUL, CZE, E, EST, F, FIN, FRO, G, GIB, GRC, HNG, HRV, I, IRL, IRN, ISL, LBY, LTU, LVA, MDA, MKD, MLT, MNE, MRC, NOR, POL, POR, RKS, ROU, RUS, S, SRB, SVK, TUN, TUR, UKR.
What about all Belgian logs? On OIRT 6 DXers made 405 logs. 112 stations from 3 countries (BLR, RUS and UKR) were entered.
On CCIR 12 Belgian FMDXers entered 12.039 logs. 2.897 stations from 42 countries were logged: ALB, ALG, AUT, AZE, BIH, BUL, CZE, E, EST, F, FIN, FRO, G, GIB, GRC, HNG, HRV, I, IRL, IRN, ISL, LBY, LTU, LVA, MDA, MKD, MLT, MNE, MRC, NOR, POL, POR, RKS, ROU, RUS, S, SRB, SVK, TUN, TUR, UKR..
Besides logging Iran and Azerbaijan to me 2025 was not a tough DX year but rather a TEF year.
I bought my first portable TEF in November 2024 but I really got into it in 2025.
Owning three portable TEFs and one Headless TEF might be of a bit hobby overkill.
The Headless TEF is connected to my online Webserver.
More about the TEF Logger App on this page and this WIKI.
Just like last year DABDX hasn’t become easy to accomplish. On the contrary as more and more muxes are no longer empty but used by new locals.
Still with great tropo and a good location a lot can be heard.
In 2025 I made 457 unique location logs. On October 11 Northern Ireland was received!
I was also proud to provide some very modest feedback to DAB software developers Clem Schmidt from QIRX, Jan Van Katwijk from Qt-DAB and Petr Kopecký from AbracaDABra.
These tools are really invaluable for serious DAB DX!
Although 2025 wasn’t too bad DXers always hope for more and better DX. Perhaps the gods of the airwaves will bless us with super DX in 2026.