Yantarne FM

Yantarne FM sits in the tail of Ukraine's 125 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.

Only two entries in Ukraine put 64 kbit/s first. The tag is self-declared and inconsistent between countries, which is why the rail below is worth more as a way of wandering than as a filter.

Yantarne FM streams at 64 kbps against Ukraine's median of 192, which is less than half the local norm. On a dial where 85% of stations reach 128 kbps, a rate this low stands out, and it usually means either a speech station that never needed more or an encoder that has not been touched in years.

Its audio comes from complex.in.ua. Five other stations in Ukraine stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.

Their address is yantarne.fm. A .fm address says the broadcaster wanted a radio sounding domain, not that the station is in Micronesia, which is where that domain actually comes from.