Radio Free Asia features Tokyo Olympic QSL

 With the Tokyo 2021 Olympics, set to begin Friday, July 23, don't forget Radio Free Asia is offering a special Olympic QSL, until the end of August. 

Radio Free Asia (RFA) announces its 76th QSL card. This latest design commemorates the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan rescheduled to July 23 – August 8, 2021, due to last year’s global pandemic. 

The Games always bring people together from around the world in peace and harmony to respect universal moral principles. This design is an adaptation of RFA’s first panda design originally used for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This updated version of the original design adds the national flag of Japan as it waves in the breeze. This QSL card all valid reception reports from May-August 2021.

RFA’s Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics QSL  

Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Vietnamese, Tibetan (including Uke, Amdo, and Kham dialects), and Uyghur. RFA strives for accuracy, balance, and fairness in our editorial content. As a ‘surrogate’ broadcaster, RFA provides news and commentary specific to each of our target countries, acting as the free press these countries lack. RFA broadcasts only in local languages and dialects, and most of our broadcasts comprise news of specific local interest.  More information about RFA, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is always 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 our 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

IBB schedule updates for B10

Effective to: 26 March 2011

All times UTC

Transmitter via Kuwait - Winter B-10 for IBB / 250 kW:

1730-2030 5780 070 deg ASH Dari/Pashto/Dari
2230-2400 5810 050 deg FAR Persian
1600-1800 5820 070 deg RFE Turkmen
1800-1900 5835 070 deg DEE Pashto
2000-2200 5840 350 deg RFE Belorussian
0300-1400 5860 046 deg FAR Persian
0400-0500 5885 355 deg RFE Avari/Chechen/Cherkassian
1400-1500 6055 050 deg RFE Turkmen
1500-1530 6105 050 deg VOA Uzbek
0000-0100 6115 050 deg FAR Persian
0030-0100 6170 082 deg VOA Special English
1400-1500 7255 070 deg VOA Tibetan
0100-0300 7275 050 deg RFE Tajik
2100-2200 7395 046 deg RFE Russian
2200-2300 7425 062 deg VOA English Sun-Thu
0100-0300 7470 070 deg RFA Tibetan
1500-1600 7470 070 deg RFA Tibetan
1600-1700 7550 050 deg RFE Uzbek
2300-2400 7550 070 deg RFA Tibetan
0030-0130 7560 070 deg ASH Pashto
1930-2030 7560 070 deg ASH Dari
2030-0030 7560 070 deg VOA English

1900-1930 9320 200 deg VOA Tigrigna Mon-Fri
0130-0230 9335 070 deg ASH Dari
0230-0430 9335 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari
1130-1430 9335 070 deg AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari
1430-1530 9335 070 deg ASH Pashto
1300-1400 9445 050 deg RFE Kazakh
0500-0600 9535 355 deg RFE Russian
1730-1800 9860 200 deg VOA Afar Oromoo Mon-Fri
1800-1900 9860 200 deg VOA Amharic
1530-1730 9975 070 deg ASH Dari/Pashto

1500-1600 11585 070 deg RFA Tibetan
1100-1400 11590 070 deg RFA Tibetan
0600-0700 11730 355 deg RFE Tatar
1400-1430 11795 094 deg RFA Burmese
0700-0800 12015 355 deg RFE Russian
0300-0400 12025 054 deg RFE Uzbek
1430-1500 12120 094 deg VOA Burmese
0230-0830 12140 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari
0830-1430 12140 070 deg AFG Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari
1430-1730 12140 070 deg ASH Pashto/Dari/Pashto
1200-1230 15265 050 deg RFE Kyrgyz
0430-0530 17530 070 deg AFG Pashto
0730-1030 17530 070 deg AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari
0600-0700 17715 070 deg RFA Tibetan
1000-1100 17750 078 deg RFA Tibetan
0530-1130 19010 070 deg AFG Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto/Dari/Pashto

AFG=Radio Free Afghanistan
ASH=Radio Ashna
DEE=Deewa Radio
FAR=Radio Farda
RFA=Radio Free Asia
RFE=Radio Liberty
VOA=Voice of America
(R BULGARIA DX MIX News, Ivo Ivanov, via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Dec 16)
(DX Mix News # 656)

Radio Free Asia - A08 multilingual schedule update

Shortwave station, Radio Free Asia's mission is to provide accurate and timely news and information to Asian countries whose governments prohibit access to a free press. RFA does not broadcast in English

All times UTC

Last day for below Khmer service 1130-1230 UTC, scheduled for Saturday, August 2.

Burmese (6 hours daily)
0030-0130 13820, 13865, 17835
0300-0400 11605, 17830
1230-1330 7390, 9320, 13675
1330-1400 7390, 9320, 11540
1400-1430 7320, 9320
1630-1730 7505, 9305
1730-1830 7505, 9300

Cantonese (2 hours daily)
1400-1500 7280, 11595
2200-2300 9355, 11715, 11785

Khmer (2 hours daily)
1130-1230 9455, 12140
1230-1330 12140, 15525
2230-2330 7580, 13740

Korean (5 hours daily)
1500-1700 1350, 5870, 7210, 7490
1700-1800 1350, 5870, 7465, 9370
1800-1900 1350, 5870, 7210, 7465
2100-2200 1350, 7460, 9385, 9770, 12075

Lao (2 hours daily)
0000-0100 15545, 15690
1100-1200 9355, 15560

Mandarin (12 hours daily)
0300-0600 13760, 15130, 15635, 15680, 17615, 17880, 21550, 21690
0600-0700 13760, 15165, 15635, 15680, 17615, 17880, 21550
1500-1600 9455, 9905, 11540, 12005, 12025, 13675, 15495
1600-1700 9455, 9905, 11540, 11795, 12025, 13675, 15530
1700-1800 7260, 7280, 9355, 9455, 9540, 9905, 11540, 11795, 13625
1800-1900 7280, 7355, 9355, 9455, 9540, 9865, 11540, 11700, 13625
1900-2000 1098, 7260, 7355, 9355, 9455, 9850, 9865, 9905, 11700, 11785, 13625, 15510
2000-2100 1098, 7260, 7355, 9355, 9455, 9850, 9905, 11700, 11740, 11785, 13625
2100-2200 1098, 7105, 7355, 9850, 9905, 11740, 11935, 13625
2300-0000 7540, 11760, 11785, 15430, 15485, 15585

Tibetan (10 hours daily)
0100-0300 9365, 11695, 11975, 15225, 17730
0600-0700 17510, 17780, 21500, 21690
1000-1100 15460, 17750, 21510
1100-1200 7470, 13830, 15375, 17750
1200-1400 7470, 11590, 11605, 13830, 15375
1500-1600 9370, 11550, 11585, 11795
2200-2300 5865, 7500, 9880
2300-0000 7470, 7500, 9805, 9875

Uyghur (2 hours daily)
0100-0200 9350, 9490, 11895, 11945, 17640
1600-1700 9350, 9370, 9555, 11750

Vietnamese (2 hours daily)
1400-1430 1503, 9455, 9715, 11605, 11680, 12140
1430-1500 9455, 9715, 11605, 11680, 12140
2330-0030 7520, 11580, 11605, 13740, 15535, 15560
(Source: A.J. Janitschek, RFA)

Radio Free Asia Releases Second Radio Pioneer QSL Card

(News release from Radio Free Asia)

April 2008 Radio Free Asia is proud to announce the release of its 21st QSL card honoring German physicist and radio pioneer, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz (1857 - 1894). Hertz was the first to broadcast and receive radio waves. He demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves by building equipment that not only produced radio waves, but also detected them. His experiments with electromagnetic waves led to the development of the wireless telegraph and the radio. His name is also used for radio and electrical frequencies: hertz (Hz). The QSL card will be issued for all valid RFA reception reports from April 1 – June 30, 2008. This is the second in our series of QSL cards honoring radio pioneers. Future QSL cards will include other radio pioneers like Nikola Tesla, Reginald Fessenden, and others.

More information about Radio Free Asia, including our current broadcast frequency schedule, is available at http://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 www.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 for anyone without Internet access, reception reports can be mailed to: Reception Reports, Radio Free Asia, 2025 M. Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20036 United States of America. Upon request, RFA will also send a copy of the current broadcast schedule and a station sticker.
(Source: NASB June 2008)