Hi Tubby, almost as soon as we had the VOLMET equipment up and running they connected it to their transmitters. It is a fully automatic system broadcasting the same information from eight VHF sites around the country. They asked us to set it up for a five minute broadcast every ten minutes starting on the hour. They use local METARS and also METARS from the Vienna data base. It is on 126.2 if I recall correctly. I dont know why they did not want to do a continuous transmission.
If you are a regular operator into Egypt or better still if you are based in Egypt I would like to hear from you.