[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on January 20

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was an interesting morning here.  There was a pronounced sunrise 
enhancement here at about 1530-1540 UTC, but it was limited to signals 
above 1400.  Some were mysteries on channels that aren't easily heard 
here: 1476, 1467, and 1548 had audio, though just barely in the cases of 
the latter two.  Something was also trying to be heard on 1458, but it 
was drowned out by one of my strongest locals, KGAA-1460.

I had two partial sets of pips on 1170 during the usual gap in KPUG's 
audio; presumably KBS and CNR, the only combination that makes sense 
here.  VOA-1575 was in well for a few minutes, not at the strength 
Dennis reported but still rather good.

There was almost nothing in the way of TPs below about 900, which pretty 
much continues the trend of recent days.

Good - mostly understandable to a native speaker
1566    HLAZ,  man in Japanese 1320, woman in Chinese 1419
1575    VOA, man:"Welcome to the Voice of America in Burmese", then 
theme mx and start of Burmese pgm 1530


Fair - a native speaker would recognize words and phrases
890    KBBI, BBC news u/CJDC 1301
972    HLCA, woman and man in Korean 1433
1134    KBS, 1257 Korean talk //972, 1300  pips
1557    Taiwan, 1530 pop vocal, then woman in Chinese
1593    CNR1, 1328 Chinese talk trying to poke through local 1590 
splatter, 1330 tones marking BoH

Poor - bits of stuff in the noise and splatter
1170    Two sets of pips 1400 while KPUG stopped to catch its breath.  
Sounded like a mix of CNR & KBS.
1422    bits of talk 1536
1467    reasonably good carrier, sometimes bits of talk during lulls in 
KGAA-1460 splash 1534
1476    easy listening music briefly rising above domestic splatter 1538
1548    bits of talk 1531 and 1538, mostly buried in domestic splatter

Carriers of note: 963 1044 1098 1323 1413 1431 1449 1458 1494 1503
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