FDIM 2013 - Four Days In May

FDIM 2013 - at the Holiday Inn, Fairborn OH
Thursday 16 May - Sunday 19 May 2013

FDIM is the annual convention of QRP ARCI. A four day event with seminars, a banquet, a Buildathon, competitions, trade stands, QRP Club tables and much more. The Dayton Hamvention is just a short bus ride away.

Seminar speakers -

	George Dobbs, G3RJV	Rick Campbell, KK7B	Roy Lewallen, W7EL
	Jeremy McDermond, NH6Z	Colin Turner, G3VTT	Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB

Visit the FDIM page for full information !

Registration starts on Wednesday evening (15 May). There will be Seminars from 8am to 4.30pm on Thursday followed by the Buildathon. Ten-Tec will make a presentation at 7pm and Vendors Evening starts at 8pm. On Friday we run buses to the Dayton Hamvention and in the evening there will be a fun event with games, socialising and QRP club tables. Saturday will have more buses to take visitors to the Hamvention. FDIM ends with the QRP Grand Banquet on Saturday evening.

Book for the Seminar online and you will be entered into the draw to win a Ten-Tec Argonaut VI transceiver worth $995 ! The draw and prize presentation will take place during one of the seminar sessions on Thursday

A raffle will be drawn in the Grand Banquet
on Saturday to win an Elecraft KX3

For further information go to the FDIM page or use the FDIM button in the top menu

Ten-Tec Presentation

Thursday 16 May 2013
7.00pm - 8.00pm

At FDIM 2012 Ten-Tec were at our Vendor Evening with a prototype of the Argonaut VI. The radio is now in production and is destined to become a classic.

In this presentation Jim Wharton NO4A will talk about the Ten-Tec Argonaut VI and the Model 418 companion 100 Watt amplifier. Jim is the Ten-Tec Vice-President and a long time member of QRP ARCI.

Ten-Tec will use FDIM as a platform to announce a new product in their ever expanding range of ham radio equipment . . .

More information on the Ten-Tec Presentation

Hoot Owl Sprint 2013

Saturday 25 May 2013
2000 - 2359 Local Time !

The Hoot Owl Sprint is a unique QRP ARCI contest because it is held on Saturday night at 8 pm in your “local” time zone and not UTC.

This is also one of the QRP ARCI contests that rewards bonus points for going out into the field to operate portable. And being only 4 hours long this contest is a very good way for you to check out your portable gear for the summer season if you haven`t been out portable over the winter.

Contest rules: Hoot Owl Sprint 2013

Spring QSO Party 2013 results

The results of the 2013 Spring QSO Party are now available - here

In the A1 AB category Brian, VE3MGY, beat Arn Olean, K0ZK, by a fairly close margin with Arn having 3 more mults but 64 less points. In the A1 HighBand category Chuck Stroud, KA8HDE took the top honors while Duaine Demus, KA6AIL took the top spot in the SB15 category. In the SB20 category Phil Graitcer, W3HZZ, took the lead with the high score while Paul Kirley, W8TM worked 44 stations while running 4 watts to lead the SB40 section.

In the A2 category the AB winner was John Laney, K4BAI, with 278,656 points. Not to be out done Bob Patten, N4BP, took the top honors in the A2 HighBand category with 356,846 points. In the A2 SB20 category Don Calbick was unchallenged in his SB20 effort and made 40 QSO’s. A full report will be presented in the Summer edition of QQ.

Congratulations to all !!

Grid Square Sprint 2013 results

The results of the 2013 Grid Square Sprint are now available - here

The 2013 QRP ARCI Grid Square Sprint is now history and had an increased participation level from 2012.

Two of the A1 winners even braved the elements to reap the rewards of going portable! In the AB A1 category Jim Wilson, VE3KQN, took first place operating portable with just 800mW. Gene Warren, N5GW, also in the A1 category and also portable, took the top spot on 20 metres running 5W. On 40m Garry Nichols, WA1GWH, stayed inside to capture the top spot on 40m with 4.5 Watts.

In the A2 category, and no doubt much warmer, Bernhard Doctor, K8AR, took the top AB spot with 4 Watts while Allan Richardson, NR1X, took the 20m spot.

Congratulations to all !

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