----- Original Message -----
From: "Porter, Dave" G4OYX
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 Subject: RE: BBC Cyprus Zygi - damage ?
Hi Wolfy,
Yes you are correct in thinking that CYP is mostly off the air due to
the lack of mains electricity on the site.
Ladies Mile MF is operating at 150 kW on 1323 kc/s.
Zygi has only two HF transmissions a day running thro' it at present
with the rest of its committment being covered in the UK, in Al Dhabbya,
Meyerton and Seychelles at Babcock operated stations.
The power station operated by the Cypriot authorities has been totally
destroyed, so we are unsure when there will be a full resumption of HF
from Zygi. However the CYP authorities are looking to obtain two
floating power stations and restore the country's generating capacity.
All is OK at Zygi apart from broken windows and doors.
No doubt the BBC etc will issue a press release sometime.
It will be interesting to see the audibility differences at the targets
between the CYP and other outputs!
73 Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel"
To: "David Porter_WOF_G4OYX"
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011
Subject: BBC Cyprus Zygi - damage ?
Hi dear Dave,
do you have any information at hand,
that BBC broadcasts moved from Cyprus to U.K. or different Babcock
TX sites recently now ?
73 - kind regards de Wolfy DF5SX
CYPRUS. BBC CYPRUS RELAY DOWN Glenn, From the Daily Torygraph (which I'm
perusing on a regular basis these days, along with the Guardian, for news
on the Murdoch scandal, which seems to break aboute very hour I'm
*really*
enjoying this):
Regards, (Chuck Albertson,Seattle, July 11, WORLD OF RADIO 1573, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
12 KILLED IN CYPRUS WHEN IRANIAN ARMS DEPOT EXPLODES
At least 12 people were killed when a depot containing seized
Iranian arms exploded at Cyprus's main naval base, destroying the
island's biggest power station resulting in widespread blackouts.
By Richard Spencer 5:02PM BST 11 Jul 2011
The 98 barrels containing an estimated 2,000 tonnes of high explosive
had been stored for two years in the open, in temperatures of up to 102F
(40C), despite concerns of officers from the Cypriot National Guard.
The explosion at the Evangelos Florakis Naval Base, on the southern
coast of the island near the town of Zygi, happened shortly
before 6am local time. Fire services had been called to a blaze at the
base, apparently in the brush, at 4.24, but the flames enveloped two of
the barrels, setting off the blast. The shock wave could be heard 40
miles
away in the capital, Nicosia. The country's defence minister and military
chief both resigned in the wake of the explosion, which also injured 62
people. Television footage showed the walls stripped from the power plant
at Vassilikou, next to the base, which supplies more than half
Cyprus's electricity. The authorities urged residents to cut down their
use of both electricity and water, since much of the island's drinking
supplies comes from desalination plants. Also affected by the power
outage was a BBC relay station, six of whose transmitters, broadcasting
English-language services to the Middle East, were disrupted.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/cyprus/8630547/12-killed-in-Cyprus-when-Iranian-arms-depot-explodes.html
(via Chuck Albertson, DXLD)
Includes one-minute video, in Greek, and four large radio towers are
visible in the distance, final scene. Apparently it is just
a power interruption to the BBC relay, no damage there (gh)
Those transmitters, located at Zygi, are used for more than English.
Indeed, the explosion of the seized Iranian arms might be affecting
BBC Farsi transmissions from the site.
(Kim Andrew Elliott, kimandrewelliott.com via DXLD)
You will find a number of BBC entries from other sites on the entire
Babcock schedule dated as starting 11-Jul or 12-Jul, perhaps because
of this:
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A11&fmor=BAB
Not many of the above go with "Limassol", where transmissions have merely
been reduced rather than changed
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BBC/Babcock Cyprus adjusted 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 MW is:
FREQ STN BTIM ETIM LANG DAYS TARGET PWR
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
via Dan Ferguson North American Shortwave Assn:
http://www.naswa.net
Combined SWBC skeds .xls & TEXT - updated July 14 at 1500 GMT:
http://www.hfskeds.com/skeds/shortwavelistening yg via DXLD)