Darhan Radio

Darhan Radio sits at 10 of 24 in Kazakhstan's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.

With three recorded opens, Darhan Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Kazakhstan's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Ethnic is the station's own leading tag and no other entry in Kazakhstan uses it that way. Worth reading as self-description: the directory takes tags as broadcasters type them and does not reconcile them.

At 96 kbps, this sits below most of Kazakhstan's listing, whose median is 128 kbps. 74% of the country's stations reach 128 kbps or better, so the dial around it is mostly higher.

The format here is AAC, against a listing for Kazakhstan overwhelmingly made of MP3. Both play in a browser; the difference shows up in how much quality survives at a given bitrate, where AAC has the advantage at lower rates.

The stream is served from stream.darhanradio.com, which no other entry in Kazakhstan 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.