[TowerTalk] how to search the archives?

[Pete Smith]

At 04:55 PM 7/29/00 EDT, K7LXC@aol.com wrote:
>
>In a message dated 07/29/2000 1:33:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>brunet@us.ibm.com writes:
>
>> Is there still a way to automatically search the archives? 
>
>    What's "automatically"? 
>
>    I used the "go" search function recently and wasn't impressed. It goes 
>through ALL of the archives (3830, cq-contest, etc.) and I was only able to 
>access the first ten pages of hits and not all of the ones it selected so I 
>never got to the TowerTalk archives.

You can include the reflector name as one of your search terms, but from
what I can see they have only indexed the monthly summaries, so each hit
requires you then to guess which search term it found and use the control-F
function to find the particular message.  This way also it only finds the
search words in the title of the message.  

I know they have had trouble with the search function and I hope this is
only a temporary malady.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR

The World Contest Station Database 
is back up and running at
http://www.qsl.net/n4zr 



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