[IRCA] Halloween TP Treats in Seattle

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Conditions this morning started out like a typical TP opening,but when 
local sunrise neared there was a very pronounced enhancement above 1400 kHz.

The high point of the opening was on 1530, which sounded like a 
graveyard channel, instead of just KFBK. DZME was the dominant station 
from about 1450 to 1505. I also tried 1440 but there was no sign of JOWF 
- CKJRÂ was pounding in on day power.

Asian signals were noted on many high-band channels as listed below. I 
plan to go back through the files again in hopes of finding more 
Halloween treats, but this report should do for now. The high end TPs 
have generally not been heard very well this season, aside from the 
powerhouses like 1566 1575 1323 and 1422, so today's session was an 
exciting one.

1395ÂÂÂ UNID, 1501 nondescript music, 1502 deep-voiced male talk poor in 
heavy splash

1413ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JOIF, 1458, bits of male Japanese briefly surfacing 
through the splatter

1422ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JORF, 1458, fair w/female vocal song, then ads in 
Japanese, chime on the hour

1458ÂÂÂ UNID, 1456 decent sized carrier but weak audio and much splatter 
, not enough to guess the language

1467ÂÂÂ S KOREA? 1459 possibly HLKN w/talk, not //1602, long tone at toh 
(the 3 short pips possibly buried in splatter), then male talk sounding 
similar to the KBS1 newscasters, poor in CJVB splash

1485ÂÂÂ UNID, 1500 weak carrier, haven't found any audio yet

1494ÂÂÂ JAPAN/UNID, JOYL?/?, 1459 male talk, single chime or tone on the 
hour, then talk sounding like 2 stations mixing fair-poor. Some of it 
sounded like Japanese, so one of them was likely JOYL

1503ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JOUK, 1449 man & woman in Japanese that seemed to 
continue to 1500 then 3+1 pips, fair

1512ÂÂÂ JAPAN, NHK, 1500 very poor time pips & a few syllables of female 
talk in heavy KGA/KKXA splash

1530ÂÂÂ PHILIPPINES, DZME, 1450 started to fade atop KFBK, then mostly 
dominant in Tagalog. Probably the one with woman in Asian or island 
accented English 1455-1500 but I need to double check the recording. 
Signal peaked 1501 with man in Tagalog & definite DZME ID. By 1505 DZME 
had faded and KFBK was once again atop the channel.

1530ÂÂÂ CHINA, 1500, loud 5+1 time pips starting at 1500:, a few words 
of Chinese by a woman shortly thereafter, otherwise buried under DZME.

1530ÂÂÂ UNID, 3+1time pips 1500 mixing with others in the cacophony, 
maybe one of the Japanese commercial stations?

1557ÂÂÂ UNID, 1455 music sounded nonstop to 1500, 3+1 pips, all long 
with the final one higher pitched, then Chinese (?) talk. Good carrier 
poor audio. Taiwan?

1566ÂÂÂ S KOREA, HLAZ, 1459 good with the usual Christian programming in 
Chinese

1575ÂÂÂ THAILAND, VOA 1458 fair-poor with program in SE Asian language

1593ÂÂÂ CHINA, CNR1, 1500 Chinese talk, time pips, the usual ID, strong 
signal but mercilessly hammered by KLFE-1590 splash

1602ÂÂÂ JAPAN, NHK2, 1500, time pips & woman in Japanese poor in 1600 splash

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