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[IRCA] TPs in Seattle on January 22

As others have said, TP conditions were quite good this morning. My unattended recording 1425-1601 UTC showed fairly consistent reception up until about 1535-40 UT at which point most signals dropped out rather quickly. The 972 Korean, however, was still doing well when the recording ended at 1601.
The low band Japanese stations were the winners today, with good signals from the regulars and bits of audio from a couple of seldom heard stations. With one or two exceptions, the upper part of the dial was sub par - HLAZ-1566 was anemic at best and VOA-1575 was just a carrier. 

GOOD - mostly understandable by a native speaker
594    JOAK, 1500, 3+1 pips then man with news
693 JOAB, good at times, esp 1447 male talk, 1540 "JOAB NHK Tokyo Dai-ini Hoso Des" then NA & chimes 774 JOUB, good 1500 with pips, then woman mentioned NHK Hoso something & intro'd next program with weird calliope-like music, weaker 1540 with NA sign-off 828 JOBB, woman in Japanese 1459, music, then pips and start of next program //774 
972    HLCA, 1459 vocal music, anmt by woman, pips, then KBS mention & news

FAIR - words and phrases understandable by a native speaker
702    NHK2, music //693, faint ID, then NA 1540
747    JOIB, JJ talk //747 1523
1332    JOSF, Japanese male faded up briefly 1530
1503    JOUK, pips & news 1500, theme from the movie "Flashdance" 1531 //594
1566 HLAZ, woman in Chinese 1532 briefly rising up, mostly poor signal otherwise 

POOR - recognizable program content
567    JOIK, 1455 traces of talk //594
612    JOLK, 1500, partial  very weak time pips //594
666    JOBK, 1445 serious-sounding JJ male //594
729    JOCK, 1500 faint pips, 1509 woman //594
837    JOQK, 1459 faint music, 1500 pips
873 JOGB, 1432, man & woman w/English lesson //774, good signal but horrific KIXI splash 
981    bits of talk 1523, probably CNR
1134 bits of what sounded like woman talking, possibly time pips 1500 amid much splatter 
1377    Inst music 1531, probably CNR
1386    pips & music 1500 //774 mostly buried in KRKO splash
1422    Japanese woman 1532
1467    NHK2, 1531 Japanese folk song very poor in domestic splash //774

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