[HBQRP] try this..

Piatt, Darwin dpiatt at fnni.com
Fri May 4 10:41:43 EDT 2007


http://www.smeter.net/ham/search.php 

Do you sometimes have trouble finding obscure information on the web? If
so, you are not alone. General-purpose search engines work amazingly
well finding the ordinary things most people search for, but they don't
always understand what someone with special interests wants. If you
search for something having to do with tubes are you interested in
plastic tubes, cardboard tubes, or radio tubes? Does the word "ham" in
your search refer to pork or radio operators? General-purpose search
engines have to do lots of guessing. Special purpose search engines that
include only certain types of sites significantly reduce that problem
and make it more likely that you will find what you want.
The things most people search for are easy to find, because they are
common and on major websites. In contrast, people like us with special
interests often search for things most people know nothing about.
Someone somewhere in the world has posted exactly what we are looking
for on a personal web page or a page buried deep within a large site,
but because that page has few if any incoming links from other websites,
major search engines don't consider it important and list it hundreds or
even thousands of pages down in search results where it is difficult to
find.
   The Ham Radio Search engine improves the odds of finding pages like
that, because it searches only ham radio sites and other sites that are
closely related to ham radio, such as sites related to electronic
theory, electronic circuits, radio propagation, or having materials used
in the construction of antennas or the fabrication of ham radio
equipment.


Darwin (Dar) Piatt - W9HZC
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