[Boatanchors] ARRL "QST Archives"

Sun Sep 19 14:04:22 EDT 2010

Under the old web site, Members had to go to the TIS Section in order to
get the Periodicals Index Search. Note: it's the "Periodicals Index
Search" not the "QST archive search" since you can search in several
periodicals just like before. Also, under the new web site, on the home
page, at the top to the left of Website Search is a Field called Your
Favorites. You can add all your favorite ARRL page links in this field.
Since the archive periodical page link has already been given in an
earlier post, all you have to do is copy that link to "Your Favorites".
Also, any page of interest on the ARRL site that you visit can be added
to Your Favorites so that the next time you bring up the Home Page, all
you have to do to go to your favorite ARRL page, is to click the
drop-down arrow on the Your Favorites field and all your favorite ARRL
pages are listed. You can then click on which ever one you want without
having crawl around the entire site. Much simpler and easier then the old
way which only permitted crawling around all over the site to find your
pages of interest. Your request for a "big fat hot link button" function
is the "Your Favorites" Field.

If you desire to view all the active ARRL page links in one list, you can
also go here:
http://www.arrl.org/sitemap

This new web site definitely has lots more feature and functionality then
the old site

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 09:06:28 -0500 Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>
writes:
> Pete, with all due respect, your solution is very unsatisfactory.
> Getting the ARRL QST etc. full-text on-line access is one of the
> _main_ reasons hams pay the dues to belong to ARRL.  There should be 
> a
> big fat hot link button right up at the top of the arrl.org page 
> with
> a bull's eye on it to make it the biggest no-brainer possible.
> 
> Having to enter a long search phrase into a little box and embark on 
> a
> nebulous procedure to get at one of the most popular functions of 
> the
> ARRL server is a procedure that could have only been devised by
> committee.  It is like some enormous bureaucracy has taken over 
> ARRL.
> 
> 73
> 
> Rob
> K5UJ
> 
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:34 AM,  <manualman at juno.com> wrote:
> > Actually, the ARRL Periodicals Index Search page is in the same 
> place as
> > it was under the old web site. And, if you put in "ARRL 
> Periodicals Index
> > Search" in the Search Box on their home page, it is the first link 
> that
> > appears. No mystery or confusion, nor did I get lost, here.
> > Pete, wa2cwa
> >
> > On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 23:27:33 -0500 (CDT) revcom at wbsnet.org 
> writes:
> >> Welp,
> >>
> >> Had never tried it, but just did, was fairly simple.  Just log 
> in,
> >> up in
> >> the upper right put in "archives" in search engine, and it will
> >> direct you
> >> to all sorts of paths to take from periodicals to lab test, and
> >> product
> >> reviews.
> >>
> >> Rod
> >> KØEQH
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  OK, I give up!  Where the heck do I go to access the old QST
> >> archives
> >> > files?
> >> > I can't get any links to them on the "new" ARRL website!!  Why
> >> don't they
> >> > quit screwing with it?
> >> >
> >> > I didn't bother to save a link to them as they were easy to 
> find
> >> before
> >> > they
> >> > changed the website.  (The access to ARRL members only)  [This 
> was
> >> one
> >> > reason I joined again, now trhey have made it a chore to find 
> out
> >> where
> >> > they
> >> > are!]
> >> >
> >> > 73,
> >> >
> >> > Sandy W5TVW
> >> >
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