Iran Targets U.S. Listeners with "Voice of Justice"
November 16, 2003
Some clarification regarding Voice of Justice/Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran, based on my monitoring of their satellite streams (Hotbird 13° east/12437 MHz/Horizontal) on 15th November:
The 1030-1130 English broadcast is beamed to Azerbaijan and the Indian subcontinent and identifies as "Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran" throughout. Their website lists SW frequencies as 15480, 15550, 21470 kHz.
This is followed at 1130-1230 by a separate English broadcast for North America (unlisted on IRIB's website), announcing just two frequencies, 6035 and 9835 kHz. This is quite early for that part of the world, but the time of this broadcast is announced as 0130-0230 UTC! Identification throughout this broadcast is "the Voice of Justice broadcast, from the Islamic Republic of Iran", but the gong, signature tune, incidental music by Vangelis, etc., are as used in other VOIRI broadcasts.
As for the Voice of Justice ID being heard on frequencies such as 15550 kHz, I think this can be explained by the engineers at VOIRI often being very tardy in switching off or retuning their transmitters at the nominal end of transmission on a given frequency - on occasion I've heard a VOIRI World Service broadcast on an apparent "new" frequency, only to find it disappearing after the first 5-10 minutes. So I would suggest that the Voice of Justice ID heard on 15550 kHz around 1130 was in fact the start of the 1130 English transmission rather than the end of the 1030 one...
You can hear a clip of Voice of Justice on the Interval Signals Online website at http://www.intervalsignalsonline.com.
(D.Kernick-G Nov 16, 2003 in HCDX)
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