Stereo 100, Quetzaltenango

Among the 31 stations in Guatemala with pages, Stereo 100, Quetzaltenango is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.

The open count against Stereo 100, Quetzaltenango is two, which is enough to know the stream has been played through the directory and not enough to compare it with anything. Small counts are the normal case out here, and a ranking built from them separates stations by luck as much as by interest.

Nothing else in Guatemala's listing leads with latin pop. The tag is self-declared, which makes it a statement of how the broadcaster positions itself rather than a classification anyone audited, and on this dial that statement is unique.

Stereo 100, Quetzaltenango streams at 64 kbps against Guatemala's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 59% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes straight from sh1.radioonlinehd.com:8056, an address unique to this entry in Guatemala's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.