[Elecraft] Using the Reflector Archives

[Walter Underwood]

One approach is to let Google do the work. You can limit your search to one website in Google. Put “site:” in front of the domain name you want to search.

For the Nabble archive of the Elecraft reflector, the domain name is:

http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/ <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/>

The Google search looks like this, including a query for “random wire antenna length”:

    site:elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com random wire antenna length

The Google results should look like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com+random+wire+antenna+length <https://www.google.com/search?q=site:elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com+random+wire+antenna+length>

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> On Apr 23, 2016, at 1:49 PM, Phil Wheeler <w7ox at socal.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Ted,
> 
> I use this http://marc.info/?l=elecraft and check subjects in most cases. Seems to work well.
> 
> 73, Phil W7OX
> 
> On 4/23/16 1:36 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>> The question in general is how best to search the reflector archives.  The most direct way is a word search, aided by a very limited form of Boolean analysis through the "Advanced Search" function.  But I find that clunky, and not very useful for topics that don't have predictable or uniform vocabularies.  It risks both sorts of errors - overinclusion and under inclusion.  I am not unfamiliar with search strategies in general, having spent the better part of a lifetime dealing with legal and health sciences databases of almost every conceivable kind.  Almost all of the better ones are both Boolean and topical, which the reflector archives are not - unless I am missing something.  So, just wondering how those who use the reflector archives navigate through them . . . for example, for a subset of a broader topical search.  Any secrets you'd be willing to share?  Thanks,
>> 
>> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
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