Friday, July 15, 2011

BBC Cyprus relay station adjust broadcast schedule

A recent explosion at Cyprus' Zygi port has required reductions in the operations at the BBC/Babcock transmitting station at Limassol. The current Limassol schedule, including medium wave is:

All times UTC

FREQ STN BTIM ETIM LANG DAYS TARGET PWR AZI

639 BBC 0300 0329 English s...... 500 180
639 BBC 0300 0329 English .mtwtfs 500 180
639 BBC 0329 0330 Arabic smtwtfs 500 180
639 BBC 0330 2100 Arabic smtwtfs 500 180
720 BBC 0300 2100 Arabic smtwtfs 500 110
1323 BBC 0200 0729 English .mtwtf. 200 150
1323 BBC 0200 2300 English s.....s 200 150
1323 BBC 0900 2300 English .mtwtf. 200 150
5875 BBC 0030 0100 Dari smtwtfs WAs 300 077
5875 BBC 0100 0130 Pashto smtwtfs WAs 300 077
5875 BBC 0130 0200 Dari smtwtfs WAs 300 077
5875 BBC 1700 1800 Arabic smtwtfs Arab.Gulf 300 101
5875 BBC 1800 1900 English smtwtfs Gulf 300 090
5925 BBC 2215 2245 Greek s....fs W.Eur 250 314
6195 BBC 0130 0200 Dari smtwtfs WAs 250 077
7220 BBC 2215 2245 Greek s....fs W.Eur 300 314
7375 BBC 0500 0600 Arabic smtwtfs E.Med. 300 173
7375 BBC 0600 0700 Arabic smtwtfs E.Med. 300 173
7375 BBC 1700 1900 Arabic smtwtfs NE Af 300 173
7445 BBC 0030 0100 Dari smtwtfs WAs 300 081
7445 BBC 0100 0130 Pashto smtwtfs WAs 300 081
7445 BBC 0130 0200 Dari smtwtfs WAs 300 081
9760 BBC 2215 2245 Greek s....fs W.Eur 300 317
12095 BBC 1900 2100 English s....fs SAf 250 177
13820 BBC 1400 1500 English smtwtfs Gulf 300 090
13820 BBC 1500 1700 English smtwtfs Gulf 300 090
15370 BBC 1300 1600 Somali ......s EAf 250 160
15420 BBC 0500 0600 English s.....s EAf 300 177
17680 BBC 1300 1400 Somali ......s EAf 300 160
17680 BBC 1500 1600 Somali ......s EAf 300 160
21470 BBC 1400 1700 English smtwtfs EAf 250 175
(Dan Ferguson/NASWA/ptsw)