[Milsurplus] FLASH: McMaster-Carr Selling BC-610-F's

[D C Macdonald]

But "radio*" works for both.  The wild card does work
to expand your search.  The more specific portions
you can ad helps also.

In looking for National NCL-2000 stuff, I found that
just using NCL brought all sorts of stuff for Norwegian
Cruise Lines.  I finally abbreviated to "national ncl-*"
and that seems to have done the trick.

It's still the old story that "Computers don't do what
you want them to.  They only do what you tell them
to do."  AND, they are extremely literal in most cases.

I have found that eBay ignores several punctuation
signs.  The ":" and "/" for example.  While looking
for some particular Harley models I tried 1:24 and
1/24 (the scale) but found out that just 1 24 got
all listings with and without the punctuation.

Ya gotta get smarter than the machines!!!

HAR!!!

Mac, K2GKK/5 in Oklahoma City


----Original Message Follows----
From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
Reply-To: jfor at quik.com
To: WA5CAB at cs.com
CC: milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, kk5f at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] FLASH: McMaster-Carr Selling BC-610-F's
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 13:31:27 -0400

The eBay search engine is badly brain damaged. Try looking for Klinger (a 
French
company that makes high precision motor driven stages). Somehow you have to 
get rid of
all M*A*S*H references. Not easy.

Also, radio is not the same as radios. It does not recognize singular and 
plural as
equals. Sigh.  Eventually, you just have to search on all permutations, 
which is a real
pain.

-John



WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

 > Incidentally, you left out TS 24 and a couple of other garbles I've seen.
 > Unfortunately, since they "improved" the search engine on e--y, it 
ignores
 > hyphens, etc.  I have a bunch of RC-292 antenna sets and was wanting to 
see whether
 > any were being flogged there (at the time, there were).  But because the
 > search engine now ignors the hyphen, I got all sorts of worthless hits 
like RC
 > #292.  But most search engines are strictly literal.
 >
 > I've seen somewhere in official documents SCR-274-N rendered as SCR-274N 
and
 > the indication that N originally stood for "Navy", not the Nth model or
 > revision or reorder.  But from what I turned up here this morning, it 
appears that
 > by 1944 at least, the "error" had been corrected.  :-)



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