[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on February 10

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

As is often the case, my morning didn't resemble what Dennis and Gary 
reported.  The low band TPs were downright mediocre, with only a few NHK 
stations audible.  594 was the only one of the bunch that had anything 
resembling decent signal strength.

The upper part of the dial was somewhat better, but mostly due to the 
quantity of signals rather than the quality.  There were lots of weak 
carriers, some of them with weak audio.  1566 was the only one with 
decent strength.

Good - Mostly understandable by a native speaker for brief periods
1566    HLAZ, woman in Japanese 1304, man in Chinese 1507

Fair - A native speaker would have recognized a few words here and there
594    JOAB, talk 1516
972    HLCA, man in Korean 1250, pop song 1527

Poor - incoherent mumblings in the noise and splatter
747    JOIB, woman talking 1232
774    JOUB, JJ talk in 770 splatter 1327
1242    JOLF, weak Japanese talk 1501
1287    JOHR, weak Japanese talk 1507
1314    Weak audio 1505-08, sometimes sounded like singing, sometimes 
like talking.  Probably JOUF or DWXI or both
1323    Very weak talk 1509, too weak to ID language but probably CRI
1332    JOSF (presumed) weak JJ-like talk 1506
1422    Weak talk in 1420 splatter 1304, sounded Japanese
1593    CNR1, 1510 Chinese talk, a few syllables at a time, during 
pauses in the KLFE splatter

Carriers - 558 693 738 1278 1386 1404 1413 1431 1476 1503 1557 1575 1602

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