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The Quadro Tracker |
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by Carl Moreland |
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The Quadro Tracker is a device claimed by its inventor, Wade Quattlebaum, to have the ability to locate illegal drugs remotely. These devices were sold to federal and state law enforcement, as well as public schools, at a cost of around $1000 each, and some for up to $8000. According to V.P. Malcolm Roe the Tracker works by sensing the unique wavelengths produced by the vibrating molecules in the desired target. The device requires no power source since it works through magnetism, and the company declined to apply for a patent because they do not want to reveal the secrets of the device's operation. The Quadro Tracker is nothing more than a dowsing rod, of course, but its operation does contain a humorous twist. Like many chambered treasure-type dowsing rods, the Quadro has a chamber in which to place samples that you want the rod to respond to. If you want to detect cocaine, you simply place a sample of cocaine in the chamber and then the rod will respond only to that substance. Now obviously a public school is not going to allow drug samples to remain on campus, so the makers of Quadro came up with an effective alternative. Instead of using real drug samples, they produced something called "signature cards" which are said to be tuned to the "molecular frequency" of the substance being sought. Individual cards were sold for $250 each. From James Randi's hotline we get the following details: |
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To prepare a "carbocrystalized signature card" tuned to cocaine, the white-gloved Quattlebaum took a Polaroid photo of the substance. That photo was then taken to what appeared, to the uninitiated person, to be a Canon copier. In actuality, explained Quattlebaum, this was an "electromagnetic frequency transfer unit." Science marches on. An enlarged photocopy of the Polaroid photo was made, which "extracted the molecular structure and its subsequent frequency emission from the photo." That piece of paper was then cut into tiny squares, one of which was inserted into the plastic "signature card" chip. Et le voila! But there's more! Aware that some competitor might cut open the plastic chip and discover this high-tech secret, and sure that foreign governments would want to steal this technological leap, Quattlebaum cunningly changed over to making the photocopies ON BLACK CONSTRUCTION PAPER, so that the image could not be seen..... |
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And from the Quadro literature we learn: |
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"The frequency chip is oscillated by static electricity produced by the body [of the user] inhaling and exhaling gases into and out of the lung cavity. This static electricity is propagated on the surface of the body to the tracker which utilizes the charge to oscillate the chip....[A]ll matter contains exact molecular frequencies. When a magnetic field is created by a contained electrically charged body moving through space at a perpendicular angle moving to its direction, and that field is brought into alignment with another exact field, resonating at the identical frequency modulation, then both objects attract, just as two bodies are attracted toward each other in a gravitational field." |
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Quadro also made a variant of the QRS 250G Tracker called the QRS 550 DL designed to locate lost coon dogs. After 3 months of testing the device, Steve Fielder wrote a product review in the November 1993 issue of a magazine called "Coonhound Bloodlines": |
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It is my opinion that...as long as the user knows where the [target] is, he will be totally convinced that the unit works....I believe that the user can unconsciously influence the movement of the antenna. The unit is intricately balanced and can be moved from right to left with the slightest tilt of the hand. |
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Amazing. Of course, the fact that the claims of Quadro are identical to those of treasure LRL makers, and the fact that Quadro was indicted on charges of fraud, does not mean that treasure LRL claims are also fraudulent. |
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Further reading: Skeptic's Dictionary: Quadro |
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