Friday, May 23, 2008

Dxers Guide April - June 2008

This quarter Dxers Guide gives lot info. The articles covers in this issue are Indian news, DX News, AIR Soro details, FEBC history and lot more. If you want to read the magazine kindly click the following link. Want to get a hard copy, and then you have to subscribe it. Details are in the magazine.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Media Network returns - with trial podcast

Media Network Podcast
I'm pleased to announce that the first of our trial podcasts is now available. In this edition, which runs for 9 minutes, I talk to to Rocus de Joode of our programme distribution department about how the role of the department, and RNW's use of shortwave, have both changed in the last two decades.

To access the podcast, go to


In the course of next week, we will add the facility to subscribe to future editions. We welcome your comments, questions and suggestions for future topics via the form at the bottom of the page.(Andy Sennitt - Media Network newsletter 15 May)

Sunday, May 11, 2008

RFA's 21st QSL card honoring German physicist and radio pioneer, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz


RFA’s QSL card honoring German physicist and radio pioneer, Heinrich R. Hertz

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 below 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. Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit corporation that broadcasts news and information to listeners in Asian countries where full, accurate, and timely news reports are unavailable. Created by Congress in 1994 and incorporated in 1996, RFA currently broadcasts in Burmese, Cantonese, Khmer, Korean to North Korea, Lao, Mandarin, 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 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 http://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.