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SEPTEMBER 2018
Radio Free Asia (RFA)
announces its 22nd Anniversary QSL. Bringing free press to closed
societies, RFA’s first broadcast was in Mandarin on September 29, 1996 at 2100
UTC. RFA is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting news and information
to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports
are unavailable. Acting as a substitute for indigenous free media, RFA
concentrates coverage on events occurring in and/or affecting Burma, Cambodia,
Laos, North Korea, the People’s Republic of China, and Vietnam. This latest design
shows a standard RFA microphone flag used by many of our field reporters; this
one rests on a surface in our Vietnamese audio studio in Washington DC. This is
RFA’s 68th QSL design and is used to confirm all valid RFA reception
reports from September – December 2018.
RFA’s 22nd
Anniversary QSL
Created by Congress in
1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer,
Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin (including the Wu dialect), Vietnamese,
Tibetan (Uke, Amdo, and Kham), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance,
and fairness in its editorial content. As a ‘surrogate’ broadcaster, RFA
provides news and commentary specific to each of its target countries, acting
as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages
and dialects, and most of its broadcasts comprise news of specific local
interest. More information about Radio
Free Asia, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is available at
www.rfa.org.
RFA encourages listeners
to submit reception reports. Reception
reports are valuable to RFA as they help us evaluate the signal strength and
quality of our transmissions. RFA confirms all accurate reception reports by
mailing a QSL card to the listener. RFA
welcomes all reception report submissions at http://techweb.rfa.org (follow the
QSL REPORTS link) not only from DX’ers, but also from its general listening
audience.
Reception reports are also
accepted by email at qsl@rfa.org and by mail to:
Reception Reports
Radio Free Asia
2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300
Washington DC 20036
United States of America.