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What changes here every day can come to you instead of you checking: licence exams, DX announcements and contests as a calendar subscription, plus six RSS feeds. No sign-in, no account, and the filters of each page work in the subscription too.
Subscribe to a calendar (iCal)
Add the address in your calendar app as a subscription, don't download it: a subscription fetches the dates again by itself, a downloaded file stays as it is today.
| Calendar | Address | What's in it |
|---|---|---|
| Exam dates | /api/v1/exams/feed.ics | Exams held by the Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA, the German regulator). By default only those with free places. |
| DX calendar | /api/v1/dx/feed.ics | Announced DX activities with entity, dates and source. |
| Contest calendar | /api/v1/contests/feed.ics | Contests of this year and next, with mode and a link to the rules. |
In Thunderbird: New Calendar → On the Network → iCalendar (ICS). On the iPhone: Settings → Apps → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar. On Android it works through Google Calendar in the browser: Other calendars → From URL.
Read RSS
For your feed reader. Six feeds, each with the details that are on the page too.
| Feed | Address | What's in it |
|---|---|---|
| Exam dates | /api/v1/exams/feed.rss | One item per exam date as soon as places become free. |
| DX announcements | /api/v1/dx/feed.rss | New announcements with entity, rarity and dates. |
| Guides | /api/v1/projekte/feed.rss | Every new guide from the workshop, with a summary. |
| What's new on afu.tools | /api/v1/neu/feed.rss | New pages and features, optionally only for certain areas of the site. |
| Radio policy | /funkpolitik/feed.rss | Proceedings that affect amateur radio, with a rating and a summary. The texts are written automatically and in German, the source is what counts. |
| Radio policy: monthly review | /funkpolitik/rueckblick.xml | Once a month, what has happened, with a PDF and a version to read out on a news broadcast. Created automatically, in German. |
Tailor it to you
You can add the same filters to each address that the page knows. The subscription stays valid and the filters come along.
| Feed | Parameter | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Exam dates | status | verfuegbar (available, default), alle (all) or ausgebucht (fully booked) |
| near | Locator or coordinates, e.g. near=JO50ab | |
| km | Radius around it, default 200 | |
| DX | cont | Continent, e.g. cont=AF |
| dxcc | Prefix of an entity, e.g. dxcc=3Y | |
| days | only what starts within this many days | |
| belegt | 1 = everything, 2 = only unusual, 3 = only rare entities | |
| What's new on afu.tools | tag | Area of the site, several separated by commas, e.g. tag=contest,log. The areas are listed on /neu: click them and the RSS link there shows the matching address. |
Example: exams with free places within 120 km of JO50ab as a calendar subscription: /api/v1/exams/feed.ics?near=JO50ab&km=120
All parameters, including those of the other queries, are in the API documentation. The feeds need no key; for the other queries you can get one for free with an afu.tools account.