Radio Free Asia QSL - IBB Tinian and Saipan

Radio Free Asia (RFA) broadcasting from IBB transmitting stations located at Saipan and Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands was logged with programming in Mandarin on Feb 28, 2015 at 0345 UTC on 21700 KHz (250 Kw) & 0445 UTC on 17690 KHz (100 Kw) SIO 444 & 333 respectively. 

Reception report for both Tinian and Saipan transmissions was submitted to RFA using their web-form on the same day at http://techweb.rfa.org

Radio Free Asia (RFA) sent two full-data QSLs (mailed from their Washington H.Q).The package containing the 2 QSLs was received on 14 Mar, 2015 in Kolkata, India (in mint condition!) 

The QSL celebrates 2015 as the Year of the Ram (as per Chinese Zodiac). RFA has stated earlier that the same QSL (Year of the Ram - design) will be issued to all correct reception reports received between January-April 2015. Reception reports can also be sent to their email id: qsl@rfa.org

73 from Kolkata, India.

Radio Free Asia New QSLs - Celebrating Asian Musical Instruments

A14 DX season started on a promising note with a bunch of QSLs already on my desk and a couple of others promised and probably in transit. Some stations like Radio Japan, Radio New Zealand and Voice of Turkey was logged recently and their new summer frequencies are received with promising signal quality from my QTH in Ballygunge, Kolkata, India. But this post does not concern my recent loggings. For that you can check my recent SW DX loggings.

This post is about the first 2 RFA QSLs in A14 received for reception reports of April 18 – World Amateur Radio Day. The cards are part of RFA’s QSL series entitled “Asian Musical Instruments” Card No. 3. The picture on the QSL is showing the Đàn tranh, which is a traditional Vietnamese stringed instrument.

This RFA QSL will be issued to all verified reception reports from April – June 2014.

 The two QSLs I received verify RFA broadcasts transmitted from Saipan and Tinian Islands (Northern Mariana Islands) respectively. 73's