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Friday, January 28, 2011

HOT SPOT DXING - Fox News Declares Cairo is a War Zone


The following is the latest B10 Winter shortwave schedule I have for Radio Cairo. Any corrections or monitoring information is always appreciated.
Gayle Van Horn

Egypt, Radio Cairo - B10 Multilingual schedule

Radio Cairo website in Arabic: http://www.ertu.org/

Effective: 31 October 2010 - 27 March 2011

All times UTC
target areas: af (Africa) am (Americas) eu (Europe) na (North America) pa (Pacific) sa (South America)

Afar
1600-1700 15285af

Albanian
1500-1600 13580eu

Amharic
1730-1800 15285af
1800-1900 15285af

Arabic
0000-0045 9250sa 9990sa
0030-0100 11590na
0100-0200 11590na
0200-0300 11590na
0300-0400 11590na
0400-0430 11590na
1015-1100 15060as
1100-1200 15060as
1200-1215 15060as
1300-1400 15080as
1400-1500 15080as
1500-1600 15080as
2000-2100 6860pa
2100-2200 6860pa
2330-0000 9250sa 9990sa

Arabic/General Service
0000-0100 9305na
0100-0200 9305na
0200-0300 9305na
0300-0400 9305na
0400-0500 9305na
0500-0600 9305na
0600-0700 9305na
0700-0800 17510af
0800-0900 17510af
0900-1000 17510af
1000-1100 17510af
1900-2000 9305eu
2000-2100 9305eu
2100-2200 9305eu
2200-2300 9305eu
2300-0000 9305eu

Dari
1300-1400 15065as

English
0000-0030 11590am
0200-0300 6270na
1215-1300 17870as
1300-1330 17870as
1600-1700 12170af
1700-1800 12170af
1900-2000 11510af
2000-2030 11510af
2115-2200 6270eu
2200-2245 6270eu
2300-0000 11590am

Farsi
1330-1400 15040as
1400-1500 15040as
1500-1530 15040as

French
2000-2100 6270eu
2030-2100 9280af
2100-2115 6270eu
2100-2200 9280af
2200-2230 9280af

Fulfulde
1845-1900 9940af 11555al
1900-2000 9940af 11555al

German
1900-2000 6270eu

Hausa
1800-1900 9990af
1900-2000 9990af
2000-2100 9990af

Indonesian
1230-1300 15710as
1300-1400 15710as

Italian
1800-1900 6270eu

Pashto
1400-1500 15065as
1500-1600 15065as

Portuguese
2215-2300 9990sa
2300-2330 9990sa

Russian
1900-2000 9280eu

Somali
1700-1730 15285af

Spanish
0045-0100 6270na 9915ca 9990sa
0100-0200 6270na 9915ca 9990sa

Swahili
0400-0500 9745af 11740al
0500-0600 9745af 11740al
1530-1600 17810af
1600-1700 17810af
1700-1730 17810af

Turkish
1700-1800 9280va
1800-1900 9280va

Urdu
1600-1700 6270as
1700-1800 6270as

Uzbek
1500-1600 15780as

Egypt, Radio Cairo/Radio Voice of the Arabs

Arabic
0000-0030 9295af
1900-2000 9295af
2000-2100 9295af
2100-2200 9295af
2200-2300 9295af
2300-0000 9295af


Egypt, Radio Cairo/Radio Waadi el Nile

Arabic
1700-1800 9250af
1800-1900 9250af
1900-2000 9250af
2000-2100 9250af
2100-2200 9250af
2200-2300 9250af
(DX Mix News 657 via wb, Germany & Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria)


Egypt cuts Internet, satellite TV and mobile phones
Egypt prepared for massive anti-government demonstrations today, communications to and from the outside world were severely restricted. All mobile phone services and live satellite television feeds were cut off early today. Now there are reports that the Internet has been cut off within Egypt. Only landline phones and fax remain in use.

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Al-Jazeera TV provides option “in case of jamming”

“In case of jamming to Al-Jazeera, please use the following values: FEC 3/4 - SR 27.500 Msps - 10949 VERTICAL,” Qatari Al-Jazeera TV reported at 1443 gmt on 28 January in an “urgent” screen caption, as the channel covered anti-government protests in Egypt.

(Source: Al-Jazeera TV, Doha, in Arabic 1443 gmt 28 Jan 11 via BBC Monitoring)

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Al-Jazeera English live streaming available

Al-Jazeera is still streaming live reports in English from the Egyptian capital and Suez via its website. (AS)
1600 UTC: A nationwide curfew has officially started in Egypt, but scenes in Cairo, Alexandria and Suez indicate that the crowds are ignoring it. (Al-Jazeera via AS)
1640 UTC: A government building next to the state radio and TV headquarters in Cairo is on fire. The radio and TV building is heavily guarded, but there must be concern that the fire will spread. (Al-Jazeera via AS)
1656 UTC: Al-Jazeera reporter says that crowds are now heading towards the radio and TV building. (Al-Jazeera via AS)
(Radio Netherlands Media Network Weblog)