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====== Centralize Your Amateur Radio Articles ======
I just read an article called [[https://fparc.uk/2025/06/19/rss-syndication/ |Reclaim Your Reading Time: Centralise Your Amateur Radio Articles]] about RSS syndication for ham radio operators, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to highlight how to get started with this old (decentralized) technology, and how you can follow this site's RSS feed.

First, here is a little introductory blurb from [[wp>RSS|Wikipedia's RSS Article]]:
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RSS [...] allows users and applications to access updates to websites in a standardized, computer-readable format. Subscribing to RSS feeds can allow a user to keep track of many different websites in a single news aggregator, which constantly monitors sites for new content, removing the need for the user to manually check them.
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Basically, what you do is add a bunch of website's RSS feeds to your app, and when you open the app, it automatically checks those websites for new articles.

There's a lot of different ways to use RSS.  Some of them use an external server to save your feed, but I personally like to use [[https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.decsync.sparss.floss/ |spaRSS]].  It's an old Android app that requires no external server or account.  Here's a few feeds I follow as an example (you can import this into spaRSS) to get started: {{ :blog:2025-06-21:sparss.opml.zip |}}

Finally, if you want to add our website's news feed to your RSS feed, add this link: https://scarcs.ca/feed.php?ns=blog  That's what the [[https://scarcs.ca/feed.php?ns=blog|{{:icons:lunagray:16x16:rss.png|RSS Feed}}]] logo to the right of the <key>For Members</key> link at the top does. 


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