On Sep 11, 10:48*am, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
Did anyone get "QST: Annual Index" to pull up the annual index for any
issue of QST? *Returns nothing here _and_ it also highlights (selects)
the "QEX: Annual Index" and "Ham Radio: Annual Index" entries.

And, why no "QST: Table of Contents"!!

It's easy to trawl through various _columns_ in QST. *But, unless you
have a pretty good idea what the title is, or who the author was,
there's no easy way to locate a feature article.

I would assume the _intent_ of putting all this up on the ARRL web site
is for ARRL Members to find material in old issues of QST. *Why doesn't
the _implementation__ demonstrate this? *At least give us the Annual
Index(es) and the TOCs.

If you want an annual index, you type in the year, select the
magazine, set the month to any, and it lists all the articles for that
year.

About locating a feature article... depending on the nature of the
article there are keywords like "Construction Project",
"Modification", "Homebrew", "QRP", In between title search and
keyword search and author search, I've been able to find all the
articles that I've been looking for.

Could they improve the searching ability? Oh yeah, sure. I have a
freaking hardware-store orgasm every time I go to http://www.mcmaster.com/
just give it a try, I can start typing "Gear Puller" in the search box
and even before I finish the word puller, I have the catalog page in
front of me with pictures of all the relevant dimensions and types.
That's really good! I've used a lot of web-based search utilities and
I'd rank the ARRL QST online index/search engine as above average but
nowhere near the best.

Tim. N3QE