[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on January 16

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My DX today was very similar to Nick's.  There was a resurgence at the 
high end of the dial, highlighted by a solid signal from HLAZ for an 
hour or two.  There was very little at the low end of the dial.

Like Nick, I had decent reception between 1300 and 1400, a drop off for 
a while, and then a resurgence at sunrise.  There were exceptions - HLAZ 
remained good after 1400, dribbled down to nothing just before 1500 and 
never returned after that.  1575 seemed to have different stations at 
different times: definitely VOA at 1600, but 2.5 hours earlier the 
channel had what was more likely an AFN station.

Here's what the SDR captured today:

Good - easily understood by a native speaker during the times noted
1503    JOUK, discussion in Japanese 1342-1351, considerably weaker 
after that but had a slight improvement 1540
1566    HLAZ, quite strong at times 1240-1450 in Japanese until 1345, 
then Chinese.  Signal dropped off drastically after 1500

Fair - a few words could have been understood by a native speaker
1287    JOHR, Japanese talk rapidly fading in and out every few seconds 
1257.  Also at 1536 steadier signal with group talk
1575    Hiphop music 1312-1340, probably AFN
1575    VOA, Asian talk 1559, mentioned voanews.com, then theme mx and 
start of news pgm
1593    CNR or NHK talk sometimes poking through KLFE splatter 1353.  
Japanese NA 1540 then chimes //1602

Poor - too weak to understand anything
747    JOIB, faint pips 1400
972    bits of talk 1311
1422    bits of talk 1340
1602    NHK2, very faint pips 1300.  Better with NA //1593 1540, then 
chimes 1541

Interesting carriers
1269 1278 1314 1386 1413 1431 1557 1584
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