[Elecraft] Searching the archives

[Don Wilhelm]

Dave,

That last link you provided makes it SOOOO easy - I did bookmark it as 
you suggested.  Thank you for putting it together for us.

73,
Don W3FPR

David Wilburn wrote:
> 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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