Onda Avilés Radio

One word in the name is ordinary Spanish rather than branding: Onda is wave. Worth a line for anyone reading a list of stations in a language they do not have.

This is one of the quieter entries in Spain's listing, at 355 of 487. 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 one recorded open, Onda Avilés Radio sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in Spain's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.

Onda Avilés Radio broadcasts in Spanish, which is the language most of Spain's stations in the directory use. The country's listing records six languages in total, so the Spanish stations are the body of the dial rather than the whole of it.

Onda Avilés Radio streams at 96 kbps, under Spain's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.

Its audio comes straight from stream-179.surfernetwork.com, an address unique to this entry in Spain's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.