Free radio pirates on medium and short wave messageboard of alfa lima

Many probably noticed a station in Arabic on 6290 yesterday. I see from reading Glenn Hauser's World of Radio (www.worldofradio.com) that the station is RADIO CAIRO which is scheduled to use this frequency from 1100-0300UTC.

There goes another 48m frequency.

With the new winter schedules, there may be more international stations creeping into 48m to escape the overcrowded 49mb (not helped by all those DRM broadcasts splattering 20kHz ether side).

Egyptian Radio makes extensive use of 48m band according to this schedule:

EGYPTIAN RADIO & TV UNION (ERTU)
BROADCAST ENGINEERING
STARTING 28/10/2007
TENTATIVE PROGRAM SCHEDULE (B07)

TIME FREQ MB LANGUAGE TARGET AREA
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1100-0300 6290 49 GENERAL PROG N.AMERICA & EUROPE
1500-1600 6250 49 ALBANIAN ALBANIA
1600-1800 6270 49 URDU S. ASIA
1600-1800 6225 49 TURKISH TURKEY
1800-1900 6225 49 RUSSIAN W.RUSSIA
1800-1900 6250 49 ITALIAN EUROPE
1900-2000 6250 49 GERMAN EUROPE
2000-2115 6250 49 FRENCH EUROPE
2115-2245 6250 49 ENGLISH EUROPE

Info via Alokesh Gupta on www.hard-core-dx.com

These frequencies make big problem here. I've just checked 6250&6290 - very strong (also 6300 of course). So now we lost next channels for transmissions.