Tarek Zeidan in Cairo reported yesterday to DX Listening Digest: I noticed a note on Al Jazeera TV today 10/1/09 a note stating that they are transmitting on the MW freq of 954. I picked them up yesterday around 2215 UTC .
Andy Sennitt adds: This is presumably because of the current situation in Gaza. The state-owned Qatar Broadcasting Service uses 954 kHz at 0245-2130 for its main Arabic service wIth a high-power transmitter. Presumably this has been made available to Al Jazeera for overnight use. We have so far seen no reports about this in the (English-language) Qatari media.
on Jan 11th, 2009 at 20:43
According to Euro-African Medium Wave Guide:
954 Khz
QAT - QBS Arabic, Al Arish (2000 KW) - 0245-2130; antenna main beam: just south of west; SW parallel: 9570 kHz
Maybe its on SW, too.
on Jan 11th, 2009 at 21:22
No shortwave from Qatar anymore, the transmitters have been shut down years ago and aerial images suggest that probably the antennas are already dismantled.
Concerning 954 kHz: WRTH 2009 says that it’s on air around the clock now, so it would be not just a regular overnight break that gets filled with Al Jazeera TV audio. And the beam heading is rather “just north of west”, reaching from Egypt to Syria or thereabouts.