Kalika F.M

Kalika F.M sits in the tail of Nepal's 32 entries. The tail is the part of a directory that goes missing first, and it is the part worth keeping: the head of every country's list is the same handful of national broadcasters, and everything that makes a dial local is behind them.

The open count against Kalika F.M is one, 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.

The directory carries no bitrate for Kalika F.M. The field is filled from what the stream's own server reports when it is scanned, so an empty one usually means a server that answers without announcing itself rather than a bad stream. Nepal's stations that do report come in at a median of 128 kbps, for whatever that is worth as a guess.

The audio comes from hamropatro.com, and 12 other stations in Nepal are served from the same address. That is a streaming platform carrying many broadcasters rather than a station running its own server, which is worth knowing for a practical reason: when a platform has a bad night, a whole block of Nepal's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.