[CQ-Contest] Q-multiplier

[Mike]

In California many of the Q-Multipliers in use today
are rumored to be implemented in hardware rather
than software. Of course hardware implmentation
requires large amounts of 3-phase AC power which
is allegedly in short supply these days :):)

Mike, W4EF/6........................

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Horton" <k5iid at ntelos.net>
To: "tony field" <ve6yp at shaw.ca>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Q-multiplier


>
> At 10:43 11/24/01 -0700, tony field wrote:
>
> >The current poor conditions for the contest led me to do some
> >research into ancient history.  In the 1950's, the ham radio
> >operators had some special technology called a Q-MULTIPLIER that
> >could pull signals out of the qrm/qrn. It was usually employed in
> >the IF stages of their equipment.
> >
> >Obviously this would be of great value for modern contesting in
> >poor conditions when the Q-rate can be as low as 10 per hour.  A
> >Q-multipler of even a small value such as 5 would make this into
> >50 per hour.
> >
> >It seems reasonable that a modern contesting program could easily
> >have this feature added - the programmer already has an IF
> >statement - just a little more work should result in a software
> >based Q-multiplier.
> >
> >tony (ve6yp :-)
> >
> And to think, I used to have one in the late 50's and one another one in
the
> 60's. Man if used them in a contest, I might have won one!!!
> Tom K5IID :-)
>
>
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