[CQ-Contest] Q-multiplier

[Alan Braun]

Cute story.

Actually a q-multiplier was a device that hooked into the IF circuit and
functioned to increase selectivity of receivers that were not equipped with
the multistage IF's and fancy crystal filters with their 200Hz bandwidths,
that we have now. My 1st swl receiver was like that, and my 1st kit-building
project was a heathkit q-multiplier that I hooked into it. (I've just dated
myself!)

Alan Braun NS0B
----- Original Message -----
From: "tony field" <ve6yp at shaw.ca>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Q-multiplier


>
> 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 :-)
>
>
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