Simulator FM

At position 10 of 14, this is one of the stations in Afghanistan that almost nobody arrives at by browsing. That is the case for having a page at all. A station reachable only by knowing its name is a station most directories lose.

With two recorded opens, Simulator FM sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Afghanistan's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Only two entries in Afghanistan put pop first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

320 kbps against Afghanistan's median of 128. Streams at this rate are the ones worth finding a good pair of headphones for, and they are uncommon: 72% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps at all.

The stream is served from simulatorfm.stream:8025, which no other entry in Afghanistan uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.

Their address is simulator.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.