Thursday, October 29, 2009

Radio Damascus - B09 multilingual schedule

Dear radio friends

The times and frequencies of Radio Damascus for the Broadcasting Season B09 are as follows :

All times UTC frequencies/kHz

1600-1700 Turkish daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite
1700-1800 Russian daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite
1800-1900 German daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite
1900-2000 Fench daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite
2000-2100 English daily on satellite
2100-2200 English daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite
2200-2300 Spanish daily 9.330/ 12.085 and satellite

Note : Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties, the shortwave transmitters are irregular on the air. For the moment only 12.085 kHz is on the air. If you can't hear Radio Damascus on 12.085 Khz please try 9.330.

Satellite
Hot Bird at 13.0°E : 12380 MHz
Nilesat at 7.0°W : 11823 MHz
Badr / Arabsat at 26.0°E : 12054 MHz
Asiasat 2 at 100.5° E : 3820 MHz

Shortwave
9.330 / 31 meter band and 12.085 / 25 meter band

Or you can download the audio recording of the daily program on the internet at the following direct links at: www.syriaonline.sy/radio.php

Radio Damascus' English, Spanish and German program are now also available as a podcast :
http://radiodamascusenglish.podomatic.com/ (English program)
http://aquidamasco.podomatic.com/ (Spanish program)
http://radio700.eu/podcasts/damaskus/damaskus.xml (German program)

You can add the Radio Damascus' podcasts to your podcasts in Apple's Itunes and take it with you on your Ipod or other media player as an MP3 file.

The Radio Damascus staff does highly value when you write to them with your commentaries about the programs or reception reports about the transmissions and you will get in return a nice postcard to confirm the reception (QSL-card) and a program schedule.

Correspondence address:
Radio Damascus
P.O. Box 4702
Damascus
Syrian Arab Republic
(Kris Jensen, Belgium/HCDX)