Rockbox! Radio

This is one of the quieter entries in South Africa's listing, at 67 of 100. 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 two recorded opens, Rockbox! Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in South Africa's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Rockbox! Radio has no language recorded in the directory. We do not infer one. Guessing from the country would put every station in South Africa on the same shelf regardless of what it broadcasts, which is exactly the kind of filled-in blank that makes a directory untrustworthy.

At 320 kbps, Rockbox! Radio streams at more than double South Africa's median of 128 kbps. That is a deliberate choice by whoever runs it: bandwidth is the recurring cost of an internet station, and a rate this far above the local norm is money spent on sounding better than the dial around it.

The stream is served from radio.9300.co.za, which no other entry in South Africa 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.