羊飼いラジオ(Hitsujikai Radio / Shepherd radio)

This is one of the quieter entries in Japan's listing, at 58 of 88. 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 four recorded opens, 羊飼いラジオ(Hitsujikai Radio / Shepherd radio) sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Japan's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

羊飼いラジオ(Hitsujikai Radio / Shepherd radio) streams at 64 kbps against Japan's median of 128, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 65% 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.

羊飼いラジオ(Hitsujikai Radio / Shepherd radio) streams in AAC while most of Japan's dial is MP3. Codec choice is mostly invisible to a listener, and it is one of the clearest fingerprints of which hosting provider a station uses, since providers default their customers into a format and few customers ever change it.

Its audio comes from streaming.radio.co. One other station in Japan streams from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.