Most people do not want to check a website every morning to see whether anything changed. They want the change to come to them. So everything on this site that changes on its own schedule is now published in a form you can subscribe to, and everything the site is built from is published in a form you can reuse.
All of it lives on one page: Open Data (RSS) for the feeds and calendars, and Open Data (JSON) for the data. Both are in the About menu and at the bottom of every page.
Three RSS feeds
An RSS feed is a list of new items that a feed reader checks for you. Put the address into any reader (Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, Thunderbird and many others) and new items show up there as they are published.
- News & Blog —
indianahamradio.com/feed.xml. Short items about things that just happened in Indiana amateur radio, and longer posts like this one. Each news item is a summary in our own words with a link to where it was first reported, because the original deserves the reader. - Events —
indianahamradio.com/events.xml. Hamfests with a confirmed date, and the yearly operating calendar: Winter Field Day, the Indiana QSO Party, Field Day, Jamboree on the Air and the rest. Past events drop out on their own. - Silent Keys —
indianahamradio.com/silent-keys.xml. Indiana amateur radio operators who have died, one item each, dated by the date of passing. Every entry is confirmed by an obituary or a club or ARRL notice that names the person as a ham, and every item says which notice it rests on and links to it.
Net calendars
Every recurring net the site lists is also published as a calendar you can subscribe to, so the nets show up in the calendar you already use.
- Statewide nets —
indianahamradio.com/calendars/indiana.ics. The traffic nets, the section CW and ARES nets and the statewide digital nets. - One county —
indianahamradio.com/calendars/{county}.ics, for example delaware.ics or marion.ics. Each carries that county's local nets alongside the statewide ones. All 92 counties have one.
In Google Calendar, choose Other calendars → From URL. In Apple Calendar, choose File → New Calendar Subscription. In Outlook, choose Subscribe from web. Paste the address, and your calendar keeps itself up to date.
The data itself
Everything on this site is built from 23 data files, and all of them are published as JSON at stable addresses: clubs, repeaters, nets, hamfests, exam sessions, license statistics by county, emergency management contacts, the question pools, the DMR repeater picture and more. There is also one file per county that pulls together everything about that county, so you do not have to assemble it yourself.
No key, no sign-up and no rate limit — they are static files. Each one says where its information came from and what you owe the people who gathered it. If you run a club website, a net-control tool, a map or a research project, you are welcome to build on them. The Open Data (JSON) page lists every file and what it contains.
What is not in the data
Some things are shown on the site but deliberately not handed out in bulk. The Indiana Repeater Council's coordination records are theirs to publish, so they appear on the county and repeater pages with credit, and the data page points you to the Council's own directory for the full set. Repeaters found only in user-submitted directories are shown one at a time, labeled unconfirmed, and are never republished as a list. And no file carries anyone's home address, email or phone number.
Tell us if something is wrong
A feed is only as good as what goes into it. If an item about your club, your net or your county is wrong, or a Silent Key needs a correction, say so through the contact link at the bottom of any page and it will be fixed.