[Elecraft] Searching the archives

[David Wilburn]

I have noticed that the archive search tool no longer works, and some 
folks were having trouble searching the pages.  Here are a couple of tips.

If you go to google ( www.google.com ) and in the area where you would 
enter the phrase you are searching for, enter the following;

usb site:http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/

In this example I am using usb as the search criteria, and telling 
google to search the archive site for the information.  You could also use;

frequency calibration or "frequency calibration"

The former would search for any occurrence of the two words, the later 
would search for the two words together.

If you are feeling particularly froggy, when you are at Google's site, 
you can select the "Advance Search" feature
( http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en ),
which will give you lots of choices.  One of my favorite is to get 100 
returns per page, vs 10.  In the advance section, you would put the address;
http://www.ac6rm.net/mailarchive/html/elecraft-list/
in the domain section, and leave "Only" selected.

While in the advanced search section, you can tailor the search as you 
like, and then save that is generated as a result of that search.  Just 
bookmark the page that is generated.  Now, by returning to that bookmark 
  the search criteria can be changed and the search results will still 
be tailored as you like.  Below is an example of searching the archives 
for k2, and asking for 100 hits per page.  (Understand the email program 
will rap and break the link.)

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=k2&hl=en&num=100&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ac6rm.net%2Fmailarchive%2Fhtml%2Felecraft-list%2F&as_rights=&safe=off

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David Wilburn
dave.wilburn at verizon.net
K4DGW
K2 #5982