Jacaranda FM

Jacaranda FM is one of the three most opened stations in South Africa in this directory. That is a small enough club that the country hub lists all of them above the fold, and a large enough country that the position means something.

Jacaranda FM has 46 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

The gap here is large: 48 kbps where South Africa's stations typically run 128. Rates at this level were designed for dial-up and for mobile data that was billed by the megabyte, and plenty of stations simply never changed the setting.

The audio comes from edge.iono.fm, and 27 other stations in South Africa 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 South Africa's listing stops answering at once and nothing is wrong with any of the stations in it.