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 26 to Oct 28, 2023
All times and dates are Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Burmese

0030-0130 15245 15700 17530
0200-0300 15245
1230-13:30 9370 9990
1330-1400 9990 12140
1400-1430 9990

Cantonese

1400-1500 FNP*

Khmer

1230-1330 9890 11885 12150
1430-1500 9355 12140
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

0300-0400 11570 11895 12065 17800
0400-0500 11895 13750 17800 21570
0500-0600 11895 17800 21690
0600-0700 11895 13790 17800 17855
1500-1600 9940 11675 13810 FNP*
1600-1700 7540 11610 13570 13810 FNP*
1700-1800 9360 9970
1800-1900 9360 9970 12095
1900-2000 9360 9720
2000-2100 6080 9360 9535
2100-2200 7435 9685
2300-2400 9535 9720 15265

Tibetan

0100-0200 9370 9410 9705 11965 17670
0200-0300 9865 11745 11965 17670 FNP*
0600-0700 15610 21590 FNP*
1000-1100 13740 15330 FNP*
1100-1200 13580 15265 15490 17640
1200-1300 12055 13580 15490 17690 17860
1300-1400 11995 13720 15275 15490 17860
1500-1600 9355 11975 FNP*
2200-2300 7485 9380 FNP*
2300-2400 5950 9545 11700

Uyghur

0100-0200 9350 9780 9800 11640 12025 FNP*
1600-1700 9335 9355 9560 11675 15140 FNP*

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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