BFBS Gurkha Radio

BFBS Gurkha Radio sits at 9 of 32 in Nepal'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, BFBS Gurkha Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Nepal's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

The directory records no language for BFBS Gurkha Radio. That gap is common and it is upstream of this site: broadcasters fill the field or they do not, and roughly a third of the stations with pages here have left it empty. It means the station appears on its country hub and not on any language shelf, which is the one place the omission costs it.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Nepal's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

The format here is AAC+, against a listing for Nepal 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 listen-ssvcbfbs.sharp-stream.com, which no other entry in Nepal 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.