Radio blogs, and full-text RSS feeds

The Southgate Amateur Radio Club does a great job of running a radio-related news site. They publish a full-text RSS feed for those of us who read such news with aggregator software. My only criticism would be that the news page index on the web site is too long and that users have to click through to a separate web page to actually read each article (perhaps, in time, that section of the overall website would benefit from running “blog” software like WordPress or similar). The SARC news-site content, however, is excellent, timely and topical.

The ARRL, on the other hand, only publishes a partial news feed (as far as I can find). This means that you have to go to visit their website if an article is of interest (and if you only have a dial-up link like I do, living in rural Australia, then that’s a pain as all the additional website “eye candy” has to be downloaded too).

Both Dan/KB6NU and Ramakrishnan/VU3RDD publish full-text RSS feeds on their blogs. This means that I can quickly read their blog contents without having to wait for a web page to load in its entirety in a browser. I appreciate it … and, likewise, all my blogs publish full-text feeds.

[The BBC does a great job of explaining what "RSS" and "news readers (aggregators)" are.]

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