Broadcast Frequencies

We encourage our listeners to tell us when they receive our transmissions. Your reception reports, or QSL cards, help us evaluate the quality of our signal strength. Please find mailing instructions below the frequency table.

To view the complete broadcasting schedule of RFA's nine language services, please click here

Schedule effective Oct 29, 2023 to Mar 30, 2024
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Burmese

0030-0130 7515 15110 15245
0200-0300 15245
1230-13:30 11795 15120
1330-1400 11795 12055 13750
1400-1430 11795 12055

Cantonese

1400-1500 FNP*

Khmer

1230-1330 9390 11885 15155
1430-1500 9720 11750
2230-2330 9390 11850

Korean

1000-1100 1566
1200-1400 9900
1500-1700 1188 9990 11510 11550
1700-1900 1188 9990 11550
2100-2200 9940 9990 11945

Lao

0000-0100 9930
1100-1200 13685

Mandarin

0300-0500 11980 15300 17660
0500-0600 11980 15300 17660 21725
0600-0700 11980 15680 17660 17855
1500-1600 7540 7665 9940
1600-1700 7665 9315 11565
1700-1900 9950 11565
1900-2000 5890 7520 9860 9950
2000-2100 5890 7520 9410 9455 11830
2100-2200 7520 9410 9455
2300-2400 9860 11615 11775

Tibetan

0100-0200 9510 11895 12110 17705
0200-0300 9870 12110 17515 17690 17850
0600-0700 15245 15665 17695 21680
1000-1100 9420 15270
1100-1200 9305 11590 15575
1200-1300 9305 11935 12050 13660 15575
1300-1400 9305 11730 13660 13680 15725
1500-1600 9470 11980 12125
2200-2300 7560 9540 12050
2300-2400 5875 7510 7620 9490

Uyghur

0100-0200 7580 9450 9790 11530 12015
1600-1700 7620 7635

Vietnamese

RFA Vietnamese is now all digital. Please find us at these locations:
Website: https://www.rfa.org/vietnamese/
Audio: https://www.rfa.org/vietnamese/audio/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RFAVietnam
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RFAVietnamese

Notes: FNP* = frequency not promoted

All frequencies are in kiloHertz (kHz). 1 MegaHertz (MHz) is equal to 1000 kHz. Conversion to meter bands: Meters=300000/frequency in kHz. e.g.: 17705 kHz --> 16.9 meters

E-mail your reception report to qsl@rfa.org, or send it by regular mail to:

Reception Reports

Radio Free Asia
2025 M Street N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
USA

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COMMENTS

Anonymous
Oct 29, 2012 03:15 AM

I listen to your Chinese broadcasts almost everyday despite of the unfavorable propagation mixed with serious jamming. You help us get to know more news which is impossible to hear in China, thank you so much for your great effort!

Anonymous
Jan 27, 2010 08:24 AM

i know i can listen to rfa online in the u.s. but will it work if I buy a short wave radio here in the U.S. I have older parents who are not internet savy but likes listening to RFA Tibetan.

Anonymous
Aug 12, 2012 02:35 AM

Thank you very much. I hear you a few day a week. Sometime I find interference, but friend tell me how to listen with radio by make changes to my antenna. I live 40 km from Beijing.
Thank you very much
English name is Jason

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