[IRCA] TP DX on 17 March

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This was almost a lackluster morning for TPs, with only the regulars 
present for most of the morning.

Just when hope was almost lost, there was an interesting 
mini-enhancement for a few minutes at the upper end of the dial. It was 
good enough to produce weak audio from a few low powered Japanese. It 
also raised the signals on 1422 and 1503 to about the same strength as 
1566. Best of all, I had JOWF-1440 mixing with domestics for several 
minutes.

Here's what was heard during the enhancement, which lasts from about 
1350 to 1405 UTC. I'll skip the rest of the stuff, which wasn't all 
that interesting today.

1287ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JOHK 1357 fair w/Japanese talk, single tone at ToH, then 
more talk

1323 CHINA, CRI 1400 the usual trumpet fanfare & ID weak

1386ÂÂÂ JAPAN, NHK2, 1359 Japanese male talk fair //774, ran across ToH 
with no pips

1422ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JORF 1401 Japanese man & woman quite good

1440ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JOWF, 1353 animated fast-talking Japanese woman mixing 
with domestics, sometimes dominating, for several minutes. Single tone 
at ToH

1458ÂÂÂ UNID, 1359 bits of music poor

1467ÂÂÂ JAPAN, NHK2(somewhat tentative), 1402 male talk, I'm about 90% 
sure it was //747

1494ÂÂÂ UNID, 1402 weak audio sounded like 2 stations, one with talk and 
the other with music

1503ÂÂÂ JAPAN, JOUK, 1356 lively fast-talking conversation in Japanese, 
1400 3+1 pips, then sedate man w/what sounded like news, good, about as 
strong as 1566

1557ÂÂÂ TAIWAN, 1354 man & woman in Chinese, 1358 piano music, 1400 3+1 
pips & possible ID, then more Chinese talk, mostly fair

1566ÂÂÂ S KOREA, HLAZ, 1354 easy listening vocal song, then 
announcements in Chinese good

1575ÂÂÂ JAPAN, AFN, 1359 pop music, 1359:50 brief anmt by man, then news 
in American English by woman. Weak and no definite ID but format fits AFN

1593ÂÂÂ CHINA, CNR1, 1401 tail end of ID and Chinese talk, fair briefly 
rising above 1590 splash

1602ÂÂÂ JAPAN, NHK2 1402 talk //1386 poor w/QRM from nearby electronics 
source

Carriers 1269 1278 1296 1359 1377 1404 1413 1431 1449 1584


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