104.9 The Hawk

104.9 The Hawk is one of two entries in the United States sharing a name and differing by a number, and this one carries one hundred and four point nine. That number is the only thing in the name that separates it from the rest of the set.

104.9 The Hawk is at 843 in a listing of 1,481. Read the rank as a rough position rather than a standing: the click counts in the middle of a long national list are close enough together that a handful of opens moves a station several places.

The open count against 104.9 The Hawk 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.

At 32 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on the United States' dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.

8 of the United States' entries are served from ice7.securenetsystems.net, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.