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 Mar 31, 2024 to Oct 26, 2024
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Burmese

0030-0130 9580 15245 11705
0200-0300 15245
1230-13:30 9370 9990

Khmer

1230-1330 9330 11885 12150
2230-2330 12140 13715

Korean

1000-1100 1566
1200-1400 9900
1500-1700 1188 9910 9990 11985
1700-1900 1188 9990 11985
2100-2200 9540 11945 11985

Lao

0000-0100 15210
1100-1200 15195

Mandarin

1500-1600 9940 11675 13810
2100-2200 7435 9685

Tibetan

0600-0700 15610 17640
1200-1300 12055 13580 15490 17690 17860
1300-1400 11995 13720 15275 15490 17860
2200-2300 7485 9380
2300-2400 5950 9545 11700

Uyghur

0100-0200 9350 9780 9800 11640
1600-1700 9355 9560 11675 15140

Cantonese

RFA Cantonese is now all digital. Please find us at these locations:
Website: https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/
Audio: https://www.rfa.org/cantonese/audio/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cantonese.rfa
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/cantoneseRFA/live

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

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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