SADXA President, AC2K - Alan, opened the meeting by asking our Secretary/Treasurer for a report.
W7TUS - Mike said that we are solvent, however, we need to be thinking about next year's dues, so be prepared to pay up next month.
K7NN - Don said that there would be the drawing at the end of the meeting and that W7FI and W7EXG would be presenting the program for next month.
WA1BZQ - Bruce reported that the Christmas Party would be at the Cattletown Steak House not far from the Tucson Airport and it would be a good venue for a varitety of food and a private room for our activities.  He also recommended that we invite Lillian to our party and it was unanimously agreed to do so.
N7WS - Wes, gave us the . There are many dxpeditions occuring such as T30GG, 5K0K, VP6R on Pitcarin starting the 18th, VU7RI coming up, D68CC, TX7T the 6th thru the 19th of December, some Russians are working YJ0RRC, AQ7KK in the Maltese, VK8CZ and the CW contest coming up.
KB7AZ - Carl reported that with the help of the ARRL and the Arizona Corporation Commission, the  folks have agreed to look into troubleshooting noise issues for the Tucson amateurs as did KD7AYQ - Gary.  When he retired, TWP lost interest in the RFI program that Gary ran so effeiciently.  Carl said to use care when reporting and to use the statement "I believe I'm experiencing interference from...." (Your editor is waiting for a copy of the paper explaining the procedure from Carl)

K6WSC - Bill reported that he had worked the California QSO Party and the Arizona QSO Party and is having fun.
W7TUS - Mike reported that his equipment is up and the bands are improving.
N6ITY - Dennis says he's getting ready for the CQWW contest and is working .
AA7FV - Darrell  said that his routine 20 meter schedule with his friend from France had been missed for July and August but was back on schedule.
W7EXG - Bill said his antenna was up and going and had given his presentation to   and it was well received.
KB7KZ - AJ brought his SADXA badge from years ago and passed it aound .  AJ has been snowbirding in Michigan and attended the Superfest in Milwaukee.  He said that he had operated mobile at the Eastern most point in the USA in Maine and had a great time (12 May) working from FN65 with an IC-7300 and a whip from his Jeep and had fun working some Europeans.
W0PZD - Dick reported that his computer system had been down but he was working some .
AG7RE - D bought an old telegraph sounder and key at a hamfest.  He told a story of playing with it and sending code and listening to the sounder, etc.  He said he was in the kitchen cleaning up and was scraping oatmeal out of a pan when his wife yelled at him.  She had been sleeping and when she heard the sound of him scraping the pan, she thought he as playing with the key and sounder at 4 in the morning!  Another irony was that KB7KZ - AJ's father had worked in the plant in Menomonie, Wisconsin where they made that key and sounder.
N7WS - Wes said he had worked Norway, Latvia and Sweeden on 160.  He also talked a bit about the logging program Clublog and recommended that the members sign up for it.
K4HXX - Vince  said he'd had the flu and it had slowed his work on his camoflaged tower and hex beam.  He said he'd finally found plastic vines to help hide his stuff having had some candidates fail when he microwaved them to simulate RF exposure.
W9FI - Jim said he had 203 confirmed.
WD7F - John mentiioned that there would be a Boy Scout this weekend and to check Google for JOTA frequencies and give the scouts some traffic.  Also, K34TYE - Joe is a local scout leader preparing for the jamboree and is going to operate HF, VHF, D-Star and DMR modes.
WA1BZQ - Bruce said that he and a couple others worked the Arizona QSO party at the University of Arizona Club Station and had amassed over 4200 points during that event.
K7NN - Don totals for the SADXA Challenge Award since July is Mixed CW, Digital, Phone: 138 entities.  60 meters: 116.   countries: 208.  In September and October, he made more than 1600 DX contacts.  Propagation is improving..
AC2K - Alan finally has his tower and hex beam up 62 feet and is installing his 2 element 40 meter beam.  He says to "Watch out! I'm going to compete now!" 
KB7AZ - Carl worked the recent RTTY contest and has 50 countries on 10 RTTY as of today.

Finally, the drawing for the publication, was held.  Believe it or not, for the third time in four months, our own AA7FV - Darrell's ticket was drawn. Darrell, saying that he already had the book, relinquished his prize and another ticket was drawn.  The winner was AC2K - Alan.  Congratulations, Alan.