Chinese radio beacon

 

The HAM Radio, located underneath the Dead Chinese Commando

The Chinese radio beacon will be added to your radio in a random location in the Wasteland depending on each game. The signal will grow stronger as you get closer to the source of the beacon - a dead Chinese Commando.

The commando carries a full set of Chinese equipment, including a Chinese pistol, Chinese officer's sword, and a dirty Chinese jumpsuit, as well as assorted medical supplies.

If you can't find the corpse, try making Dogmeat search for a weapon.

If a user uses the noclip code, they can go underground where they will find a ham radio labeled "Chinese Radio Beacon" underneath the commando. The radio can be talked to like any NPC. If interacted with, the player will hear "Hello?" or "Hey there" in English through the radio, to which the only reply available is "See you later. or Time for me to go." Upon choosing this, the player then hears "Bye" or "Later" in English as the dialog ends.

The message broadcast over the signal is "bai shi" 敗 失, which is pronounced more like "bye sir" by people for whom Chinese is a second language. (or can also be perceived as "shi bai" 失 敗), both of which mean losing and failing.

Notes

If the dead Chinese Commando spawns at a location such as Super-Duper Mart with raiders present, the raiders will loot the commando's body of most or all weapons but leave the dirty chinese jumpsuit behind. If the commando spawns at a raider location, search the raiders first if you want the commando's weapons, witch are in much better repair than normal raider weapons.

Bugs

• PC If the player already has a given Chinese object in their inventory the Commando may spawn without that particular object in his inventory .
• PC Sometimes the dead Chinese Commando doesn't spawn. You can still noclip underground and find the ham radio, but there will be no corpse above it.
  • PC A workaround on the PC is to use the console command player.placeleveledactoratme a0a4c.
• There have been instances the Commando will spawn on the second story of a building, with the ham radio "floating" in plain sight near the ceiling of the floor below. This also happens on the raised highways, with the Commando on top and the radio stuck to the underside.
• Xbox 360 Sometimes the beacon will become available only at a far edge of the world-map, indicating the commando's body is somewhere far off-map.

Radio stations in Fallout 3 Stations Major Enclave Radio · Galaxy News Radio Minor Agatha's Station · Vault 101 PA System · People's Republic of America Radio · Pitt broadcast · Tenpenny Tower radio Signals Permanent Chinese radio beacon · Recon craft Theta beacon · Signal Alfa Lima · Signal Echo Foxtrot · Signal Kilo Bravo · Signal Oscar Tango · Signal Oscar Zulu · Signal Papa November · Signal Sierra Romeo · Signal Sierra Victor · Signal Yankee Bravo Temporary Ranger emergency frequency · Vault 101 emergency frequency · Outcast distress signal · Wernher's distress signal denote cut content, italics denote stations available through add-ons.