Welle 1 - Salzburg - HQ

The name is not all brand. Welle is wave, which says something about the programming that the entry's tags may not.

This is one of the quieter entries in Austria's listing, at 78 of 103. Stations at this depth are usually community, religious or single genre broadcasters rather than national networks, and the country's numbered pages are the only route to them.

With three recorded opens, Welle 1 - Salzburg - HQ sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Austria's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Welle 1 - Salzburg - HQ shares its leading tag, at_welle1, with two other Austria entries. Across every country the directory has 3 stations leading with it, so the rail below is mostly a trip abroad.

The stream is encoded at 256 kbps, more than twice the 128 kbps median for Austria. Bitrate is the one quality figure the public directory carries, and on this entry it is unambiguous.

The stream is served from live.welle1.at:18256, which no other entry in Austria 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.