SATELLITE NILESAT Starting January 1st 2015, some Vatican Radio - PDF document

SATELLITE NILESAT Starting January 1st 2015, some Vatican Radio Programs shall be also on a new satellite platform: NILESAT Satellite coverage is from north east Africa to part of Middle East. In setting up Program Schedule it has been taken into account the countries and languages covered by such satellite. Following are settings in order to receive satellite signal and Schedule of programmed transmissions. PARAMETERS: Satellite Eutelsat 7A West (Nilesat grouping at 7 degrees West) Frequency 11.354 GHz Polarisation Vertical Symbol Rate 27,500 FEC 5/6 Andrzej Koprowski S.I.

UTC W EEKDAYS START END 00.05 00.35 Arabic 00.35 00.40 Station signals 00.40 00.59 Hindi 00.59 01.18 Tamil 01.19 01.38 Malayalam 01.38 01.58 English - India 02.00 02.30 Amharic - Tigrinya 02.30 03.00 French Africa 03.00 03.30 English Africa 03.30 04.00 Kiswahili 04.00 04.30 Amharic - Tigrinya 04.30 05.00 French Africa 05.00 05.30 English Africa 05.30 05.50 Armenian 05.50 06.00 Musical interlude 06.00 06.30 French Africa 06.30 07.00 English Africa 07.00 07.15 News in Italian 07.15 07.30 News in French 07.30 07.45 News in English 07.45 08.15 Arabic 08.15 08.35 Armenian 08.35 08.55 Rumanian 08.55 09.15 Arabic 09.15 09.35 Hindi (Except Wednesday) 09.15 10.35 General Audience - Natural sound (Wednesday) 09.35 09.55 Tamil (Except Wednesday) 09.55 10.15 Malayalam 10.15 10.35 English - India (except Wednesday) 10.35 11.05 Amharic - Tigrinya 11.05 11.25 Rumanian 11.25 11.30 Station signals 11.30 12.00 Holy Mass in English (Friday) 11.30 12.00 English (Except Friday) 12.00 12.10 News in French 12.10 12.40 Arabic 12.40 13.00 Spanish 13.00 13.20 World news in I talian 13.20 13.50 Amharic - Tigrinya 13.50 14.00 English 14.00 14.20 French

UTC W EEKDAYS START END 14.20 14.30 Musical interlude 14.30 14.50 Hindi 14.50 15.10 Tamil 15.10 15.30 Malayalam 15.30 15.50 English India (excluding Saturday) 15.30 16.00 Holy Mass in English (Saturday) 15.50 16.00 Musical interlude (Except Saturdays) 16.00 16.15 Kiswahili (Saturday) 16.15 16.30 Somali (Saturday) 16.30 17.00 Amharic - Tigrinya 17.00 17.15 News in French 17.15 17.30 News in English 17.30 18.00 English Africa 18.00 18.30 French Africa 18.30 19.00 Amharic - Tigrinya 19.00 19.30 Arabic 19.30 19.40 English 19.40 20.10 Rosary in Latin (First Saturday of month) 19.40 20.00 Rosary in Latin 20.00 20.30 English Africa 20.10 20.40 English Africa (first Saturday of month) 20.30 21.00 French Africa 20.40 21.10 French Africa (First Saturday of month) 21.00 21.20 French (except the first Saturday) 21.10 21.30 French 21.20 21.40 Spanish (Except first Saturday of month) 21.30 21.40 Musical interlude (First Saturday of month) 22.00 22.20 News in italian 22.20 22.40 Rumanian 22.40 22.45 Station signals 22.45 00.15 English (Saturday-Sunday) 22.45 23.05 Armenian (Monday - Friday) 23.05 23.15 Music (Monday-Friday) 23.15 23.35 Spanish 23.35 00.05 English Africa

UTC SUNDAYS AND HOLYDAYS ( VARI ATI ONS) START END 03.30 03.45 Kiswahili 03.45 04.00 Somali 06.30 07.10 Holy Mass in Latin 07.00 07.06 liturgical music 07.10 08.30 Rumenian Liturgy 08.29 08.35 liturgical music 08.30 08.45 Kiswahili 08.45 09.15 Arabic 09.15 09.30 Somali 09.30 10.50 Oriental Liturgy 09.30 10.50 Ge'ez Liturgy 10.50 11.00 Music 11.00 11.15 Angelus with the Pope 11.15 11.29 Music