[IRCA] DU DX in Seattle on Saturday 9/12

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Today's report may look like I was at Grayland, but I was actually 
DXing from home.  Last night i decided to use the southwest lobe of the 
K9AY in hopes of hearing DUs.  I hadn't tried this i the past because 
that direction also points at several local 50 kw transmitter sites.

The results exceeded my wildest expectations, with carriers on most 9 
kHz channels.  Except for 1566, they were all DU too.  I may want to try 
this approach more often.


GOOD
891    4TAB, 1204 & 1231 horse racing results, 5AN in the background
1116`4BC, 1223 ads, ID and anmt by woman on how to complain about their 
programs, then talk show
1332    Unid, someone briefly quite strong 1236 with oldies 
("Galveston", "The Great Pretender", etc) but faded down at ID time.  
Possibly 4BU

FAIR
738    Tahiti, 11237 French ethnic pop tunes
891    5AN, 1235 woman with end of news, "ABC News" ID, then start of 
country music program hosted by woman // the NT station on 2485
963    Star, easy listening vocals 1227
1008    Newstalk ZB weather report 1205, then talk show, had what 
sounded like racing results 1220, much KOMO splatter
1035    Newstalk ZB, end of news/wx, ID & start of talk show 1206 //1044
1044    "Newstalk ZB" ID 1205 after news & weather
1062    4TI, ABC News ID & fanfare 1200, start of country music program 1205
1098    Man saying "Australia's longest running country music 
(something)", mumbled talk, then played Charlie Daniels "Devil Went Down 
to Georgia" 1244. Unid talk in background.
1251    Rhema, Christian vocal song 1221, religious talk 1238, almost as 
strong as local KKDZ-1250 at times
1386    Tarana, Indian pop music 1208
1503    Radio Sport, 1245 relay of Fox Sports radio
1548    4QD, country music program 1247, Aussie talk, quite nice at 
times but bad 1550 splash
1566    HLAZ Chinese preacher 1143

POOR
657    Star, music //963 1227
756    weak male talk 1152, music 1211, probably NZ
774    3LO, 2 men talking in Aussie English 1211
792    Male talk, inflections consistent with DU English 1227
855    woman talking, music //1548 1226
909    Star m1220 EZL music //963
936    Woman in Chinese 1226, apparently the NZer
981    Star, female EZL song 1220 //909
1053    Newstalk ZB, talk //1044 1206
1107    DU talk (ads) in 1120 splatter 1247
1125`    male talk 1221 & other times, too much splatter to understand it
1161    Music 1227 & other times, likely NZ
1179    Reggae music ("Buffalo Soldiers") probably NZ 1227
1278    Male DU talk 1227
1296    Male DU talk 1226
1458    DU male talk 1247
1476    DU talk 1227, possibly racing results
1494    Star, 1241 music //964
1512    Male talk 1227, decent signal but audio mostly buried in 
1510/1520 splatter, 2NA?

Bruce in Seattle
Winradio Excalibur with K9AY antenna
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