Radio Humsafar 1350 AM

Radio Humsafar 1350 AM is deep in India's listing, at 525 of 565. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Language and country do not match up the obvious way here. Radio Humsafar 1350 AM transmits from India, where Hindi leads the listing, and broadcasts in Punjabi, which 14 of the country's stations use.

There is no Punjabi shelf on this site: the language sits below the cut for one in the current snapshot. The country hub carries the station instead, which is the axis that covers every entry without exception.

Radio Humsafar 1350 AM streams at 48 kbps against India's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 61% 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 from ice66.securenetsystems.net. One other station in India streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.