[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on Feb 27

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today's DX was amazingly good by 2015 standards.  It certainly wasn't up 
to 2009 standards, but tit was one of the best mornings of the season 
for Asian reception.  It was so good, in fact, that I actually had audio 
from the Korean on 603 (which is a very rare occurrence around here).  
Several other rare signals were also producing audio.

Most of today's action was at the low end of the dial just  after 1300 
UTC.  The high end of the dial was below normal, and there was no 
sunrise enhancement worth mentioning.

GOOD - A native speaker would have understood most of it for at least a 
brief period
594    JOAK, Japanese male briefly good 1313
670    KDLG, good w/guitar music & legal ID atop KBOI, then BBC news 1300
693    JOAB, Chinese lesson 1338
747    JOIB, Chinese lesson 1343
774    JOUB, Chinese lesson 1335
972    HLCA, nice ID mentioning KBS & HLCA 1259:45, pips, theme music, 
then man & woman conversing 1301
981    CNR1, 1300:30 standard ID, then announcements in Chinese, good 
despite much CKNW splatter
1053    Korean Jammer 1301
1566    HLAZ, emphatic talk by excited man in Japanese 1304, strong 
signal.  Not quite as good 1344 w/FEBC ID & anmt by woman during program 
close.  Weaker after that
1575    VOA, briefly good w/man & woman in SEA language 1312, mostly 
fair-poor otherwise

FAIR - A native speaker would have recognized occasional words and phrases
567    JOIK, talk & time pips //594 1300
585    JOPG, Japanese talk & time pips 1300
750    KFQD, jingle ID atop freq 1300, then CBS news, quickly faded u/KXTG
828    JOBB,  English lesson 1305
837    Man & woman talking, I think in Korean 1320
850    KICY (presumed), man in Russian u/KHHO 1259
864    Man & woman in Japanese 1317
890    KBBI (presumed), BBCWS under CJDC 1330
945    CNR1, talk //981 1308
1017    CRI, Woman in Korean 1341
1188    Man & woman in Japanese //594 1302
1602    NHK2, male talk //774 1441

POOR - recognizable content but little if anything could be understood
558    KBS, woman & time pips 1300, then music
603    KBS, making a rare appearance with talk & pips //558 1300, with 
much KCIS-630 splatter
657    DPRK, shrill talk 1317
666    JOBK, partial pips 1300
675    weak talk 1320, possibly Korean
729    JOCK, pips & traces of talk 1300
738    talk 1326, too much 740 splatter to tell language
756    traces of talk 1332
891    JOHK, woman in CJDC splat //594 1303
918    Man & woman 1308, too much splat to ID language
963    Male talk in domestic splat 1313
1134    KBS, talk in the CKWX splatter 1302
1206    Yanbian, Korean talk weak 1303 on 1205.95, slight growl from a 
carrier on 1206.0
1242    woman & music quite poor u/electrical noise 1328
1332    JOSF, weak woman & music 1441
1422    JORF, weak Japanese male 1311
1503    JOUK, weak Japanese talk //594 1308

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