sGRB afterglow radio light curves, computed with afterglowpy, of our fiducial binary at the nominal SKA1-Mid frequency, ν = 1.43 GHz. The curves are plotted on a log–log scale. Twenty simulated observations were taken between 11 and 500 days post-merger. The orange circles indicate the 20 observations above the 3σ_rms detection threshold when the binary is placed at d_L = 50 Mpc. The purple circles indicate the 16 observations above the 3σ_rms detection threshold when the binary is placed at d_L = 100 Mpc. The red circles indicate the seven observations above the 3σ_rms detection threshold when the binary is placed at d_L = 200 Mpc. The solid black line shows the SKA1-Mid 3σ_rms detection threshold with σ_rms = 2 μJy. The error bars give the total error as a combination of the measurement error and the systematic error.