[IRCA] TP DX in Seattle on March 14

[Bruce Portzer <bportzer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Today's DX was highlighted by presumed Filipino stations on 1161 1215 
and 1512, plus a stellar signal from JORF-1422.  Otherwise, there wasn't 
much to get excited about, with average or below average signals from 
many of the regulars.

GOOD - a native speaker would have understood most of it
972    HLCA, lively group discussion 1350
1422    JORF, ads 1359, Japanese talk 1400, more ads, pop song 1406 
fair-good, sometimes equal to or better than 1420 domestics
1566    HLAZ, woman closing the Japanese show for today 1344 briefly 
good, fair-nil otherwise

FAIR - a native speaker would have recognized words or phrases
747    JOIB, Korean lesson 1411
774    JOUB, Chinese lesson 1338
1161    Rapid male talk 1359-1403+ fair-poor, language sounded like 
Tagalog, several Filipinos listed
1215    DYRF?. light vocal song, woman & man in Tagalog, then male talk 
1400, fairly good signal but bad electrical noise
1287    JOHR, woman in Japanese 1359
1575    VOA presumed with man in SEA language 1404, poor-nil otherwise

POOR - unintelligible
594    JOAK, Japanese talk 1352, time pips 1400
648    VOR?, faint woman talking 1341,sounded Chinese
693    JOAB, Japanese talk poor in CBU splat 1353
738    weak Chinese woman 1338
756    very faint talk 1413
828    JOBB, 1339 Chinese lesson //774
945    Occasional Chinese talk poking through KJR splat 1402
981    CNR1, Chinese talk in CKNW splat 1420
1134    Korean talk in heavy 1130 splat 1359
1458    Talk poor amid much noise & splatter 1404
1512    1404 male DJ, then "Hungry Heart" & "Freebird" like Dennis 
reported, presumably DYAB
1557    Pop music, presumably Taiwan 1403
1602    NHK2 partial pips 1400

CARRIERS - 558 603 684 702 729 837 864 891 927 936 1017 1035 1044 1053 
1188 1206 1242 1467 1476 1503

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