[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on March 13

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My morning bore no resemblence to Gary's (so what else is new?).   I had 
boring low band reception 1300-1400, that fizzled off to nothing as 
sunrise approached.  However, there was a brief exciting enhancement 
above 1300, with some decent audio from several Japanese commercial 
stations.  The NHK outlets on 1386 and 1602 did OK as well.  Oddly 
enough, Gary's best high bander today (VOA-1575) was barely audible 
here.   Overall conditions were mostly down from the previous few days, 
but the high band Japanese added some excitement to an otherwise dull 
morning.

GOOD - A native speaker would have understood most of it at least briefly
774    JOUB, Chinese lesson 1331
1422    JORF, Japanese talk 1406-1417, then pop song
1566    HLAZ, man & woman in Chinese, then announcements 1359

FAIR - A native speaker would have recognized words and phrases
594    JOAK, male talk 1256-1300, pips at ToH
693    JOAB, weather report 1315
747    JOIB, weather report 1305
972    HLCA, man & woman in Korean 1352
1242    JOLF, Japanese talk 1410
1386    NHK2, man & woman in Japanese 1406
1404    Japanese talk & music in domestic splatter 1406, possibly 2 
stations mixing
1431    Rapid Japanese talk 1407, then several ads
1503    JOUK 1406, Japanese woman
1602    NHK2, 1308 Japanese man & woman //1386

POOR  - A native speaker would have understood none of it
828    JOBB, 1339 weak Chinese lesson //774
1125    Music and bits of talk 1407
1134    Lively talk, possibly a radio drama 1409, sounded like Japanese 
but not 100% sure
1314    JOUF, group vocal 1410, then Japanese woman 1412, possibly 
rising to "fair"level at times
1323    Man & woman 1409, too weak to ID language but likely CRI
1458    Weak talk 1408
1557    Weak talk 1413
1575    Weak talk 1412

CARRIERS
558 567 729 738 756 936 963 981 1053 1107 1116 1197 1206 1269 1278 1287 
1449 1467 1476 1485 1584 1593
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