[CQ-Contest] For those who like to search the Archives...

[Mike Gilmer, N2MG]

I recently ran several searches of the archives on contesting.com.

(For those who don't know where to do this, go to the "List Search" in 
the left menu area of http://www.contesting.com)

Unfortunately, that search tool searches ALL the active reflectors on 
contesting.com at once (amps, towertalk, cq-contest, etc.) and one 
cannot choose to search only, say, "cq-contest".  It has been pointed 
out that one could add the specific reflector's name to the search 
criteria if one wishes to limit the hits to that reflector.  This is a 
good idea and effective.

However, there seems to be a "gotcha" in that method, for when one 
wishes to search, say, cq-contest, and places "cq-contest" in the 
search criteria, one will probably not get any hits before March 1997.  
This is because the cq-contest archives appeared to change form around 
that time - back then the archive pages for each post did not 
necessarily have the term "cq-contest" on them anywhere (the new archives have it in the reflector's navigation links).  Delete the 
reference to "cq-contest" in the search criteria and posts from back 
that far begin appearing in the hit list.  But then, of course, so do 
posts from all the other reflectors.

73 Mike N2MG