[GreenKeys] Another AFSK News Feed

[Mike Douglas]

Thanks to you and to Paul at rtty.com for the work you guys do to keep these services up and running. They’re my primary method of feeding my Teletypes.

Mike

> On Jul 26, 2025, at 10:15 PM, Harold Hallikainen via GreenKeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
> 
> The New York Times changed their web site so my scripts can no longer
> fetch articles. I messed with the scripts for a while and finally decided
> to look for a simpler source. National Public Radio has a plain text web
> site (well, HTML with just text) that made it easy to extract the text. As
> I was rewriting the scripts, I discovered XPATH which makes it REAL EASY
> to extract stuff out of HTML documents. Amazing stuff!
> 
> Anyway, the new feed is at https://w6iwi.org/rtty/audio/npr/ .
> 
> The NPR stories tend to be longer than the NYT stories, so the audio file
> is currently about 8 hours long. A new one is created every hour, but you
> can keep playing the one you started for 10 hours.
> 
> Also, I reduced the stop bit to 1 bit time instead of the 1.5 I was
> running before. The machines run a bit faster and handle the shorter stop
> bit fine (in my testing).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Harold
> https://w6iwi.org
> 
> 
> 
> 
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