Our Social Director,  WA1BZQ - Bruce reported that the party is definitely set for the 8th of December at the Colonia Verde Clubhouse starting at 5:00 PM.  Bring your gifts and of course the XYLs will have a gift exchange as well.  Pay Bruce ASAP but especially let him know if you're coming for sure, by the 28th so he can order the proper amount of food.  It is to be catered by so, the Italian cusine should be good.  Bring your own drinks, etc.  See you there! 

Our President, K6WSC - Bill, opened the meeting by introducing our guest speaker for the evening AA7A - Ned.  In order to allow Ned to make it back to his home QTH at a resonable hour he was allowed to lead off the meeting. After Ned's presentation, we held the normal meeting.

W7TUS - Mike, our Secretary/Treasurer reported that with our paid membership, we are solvent.

As for new business, Bill introduced our three new members and they were unanimously voted in as new members with K7SCC - Barry re-enlisting, having been a previous member incuding a three time Past-President.

WA1BZQ - Bruce, our Social Director reported that the Christmas Party was as stated above.  A question arose as to whether we would have a 21 December meeting and would Pinnalce Peak be available?  Bruce later determined that, indeed, the room would be available so the December meeting is a definite go.

Bill said that he was giving a DXCC in a Weekend presentation to the club in January.

N7WS - Wes gave the DX Report saying that there is much DX contesting in November and December with the International DX Contest on 17 - 18 November, All Australia 160, RSGV 160, CQWW CW on the 24th & 25th of November, VK9XG - Christmas Island, J68J - San Lucia, 4F7KKG - Sri Lanka, 5R81C - Madagascar and too many for this reporter to write down..  It's a busy DX contest season.

Time for the part of the meeting

W7EXG - Bill worked 8 band slots for VP6D (CW and SSB) 40 - 15 Meters.  He noted that on Dec. 18^th is when the solar terminator is only about 1089 miles from the US northern border during the day, or solar noon.  This terminator is about 2200 miles from Tucson during solar noon.  Since EMUF is typically less than 7MHz for about 2500 miles or more orthogonal from the terminator, the 40m propagation for most of the US will be in the F region (DX region) during the day. For LOW SOLAR, this distance extends even further, since the E layer is less ionized. However, D absorption during solar noon is too severe to allow much 40m propagation across this solar noon boundary.   However, on East side of Solar noon, there should be 40m DX propagation towards the East. On West side of Solar Noon, there should be 40m DX propagation to towards the West.  The  DXmaps archives for this date and timeframe shows this 40m behavior. Bill plans a brief write up on the reflector on this subject. Bottom line – look for good 40m DX propagation during the daylight hours before and after solar noon for the next few months.

KB7KZ - AJ  said he was having fun although he doesn't have his tower up with it's tribander, however, has made up for his small station and he has worked 3 new countries on that mode.

W0PZD - Dick says he's new at dXing but he has an 80 Meter off-center-fed dipole and he loves and has worked Deucy Island on 40.  Good job, Dick.

N6ITY - Dennis now has his tower up with the antenna.  He worked the CQWW SSB and snagged 16 countries with .  I guess it's been a while coming, right Dennis?

N7FG - Frank says he worked Deucy Island with 18 band slots. Getting serious now, Frank?

KB7AZ - Carl has been working on a contact with KH6MF/MM and worked several grid squares with him.  He has about 100 countries on FT-8.  He also worked St. Lucia.

AC2K - Alan is progressing on his antenna tower and has the trenches dug for the conduit.  He says he's going to call for an antenna party pretty soon!

Our VP, K7NN - Don has 325 contacts on the CQWW and now has 93 countries on 60 Meter .  Dang, Don, you could be called a "Professional DXer", right?

With that, the long meeting was finally dismissed. Whew!