The 2003 FDIM is scheduled for May 15 thru May 18, 2003. Please check the ARP-ARCI web page for weekly updates to the events and registration list.

Here is the ARP-ARCI web page, and click on the FDIM link for the updates:

http://www.qrparci.org/

The speaker list is just about final, but some time slots may move around, so please be sure to check on the web page for updates.

Here is the current speaker line-up:

Seminar Schedule (Thursday 05/15/03):

07:15 am: Start Registration & Sign-in (Coffee & Water)

08:00 am: Opening Remarks

08:15 am: Rex Harper, W1REX & Darell Brehm
Quartz crystals and their
implementations in QRP circuits

09:05 am: Stephen E. Brown, W9HC
Restoring and Installing a Multi-Band
Trap Vertical for a QRP Field Day

09:55 am: Break

10:25 am: George Dobbs, G3RJV
Yet More Minimalist Radio Philosophy and
Practical
... a G3RJV ramble through one-night and
weekend projects for the homebrewer.

11:15 am: End of morning session remarks

11:25 am: Lunch on your own

01:00 pm: Peter Zenker, DL2FI
News of German QRP

01:50 pm: John Cumming, VE3JC
"Making Waves" - A QRP celebration of
spectrum Analysis

02:40 pm: Break

03:10 pm: Jim Kortge, K8IQY
The K8IQY 2N2/30 Transceiver

04:00 pm: Mike Bryce WB8VGE
Radio repair 101

04:50 pm: Closing remarks & giveaway prize

So, you can see that this year's list of speakers continue the tradition of excellence that the past years have set as a standard for FDIM. You have to
be there for this affair, as it's not only a great set of presentations, but the social gatherings, vendor night, banquet, contests, special events, etc.

Believe me, FDIM will be four days of fun!

Please be sure to join me and your closest 300 fellow QRP operators at the premier event of the year.

73
Tom Dooley, K4TJD
FDIM Chairman