Our presentation for the evening will be by our Vice President, K7NN - Don , titled Lightning and Grounding.  A drawing will be held for the ARRL Publication: .  It should be an interesting presentation.  See you there!
 

SADXA President, AC2K - Alan, opened the meeting, announcing a program for our members titled as was mentioned in his President's Comments above. The purpose is to encourage our members to get on the air and so some DXing with a bit of competetive spirit between us.  The contest will be from 1 July 19  through the end of the year.  Click on the picture above and check out the rules.

W7TUS - Mike, our Secretary/Treasurer reported that we have 43 paid members and that we are solvent.

N7WS - Wes, gave us the , mentioning  W7ISG - Ingrid's National Parks operations, first from the ARRL 2016 NPOTA event, where she and husband, K7RGG - Reinhard, traveled over 25,000 miles while visiting 40 states and putting 123 national parks on the air. Currently they are in Canada, participating in their National Parks operation. Both are members of the DX club up the road, the Central AZ DX Association, CADXA.

He also mentioned the passing of two amateurs of note, SV3ASP/A - Monk Apollo and W7LFL - Owen Garriott.  Apollo was the only ham in the entity of Mt. Athos.  Owen was the first ham to operate from space.  Wes was one of about 300 hams who made two-way contacts with him in the ill-fated Space Shuttle, Columbia.

AA4M - Bill  said that after a long hiatus from ham radio, during the last 5 1/2 months, he as worked 128 countries on and now has his 6 band Mosley up and running.  Congratulations, Bill.

W6XI - Jerry, in reference to the SADXA email reflector asked "What is the definition of Band is Open?", noting that people who post on the reflector might indicate just which band they are referring to when they make that announcement.

W7EXG - Bill reported some Sporatic E on 6 and 10 meters and that he had a 10 meter contact with Wilcox, AZ about 8:30 in the PM, an unusual occurance considering conditions that have been.

N6ITY - Dennis was working 20 Meter SSB about 8:00 in the evening and talked to a VK4 of Brisbane for a half-hour or so.  Is it coming back?

W7DCM - Dave  said that the equinoctial period was in full swing when he worked several stations in South America on 20 meters during the afternoons.  Some mornings saw openings to Europe on 20.   Additionally, he erected a new dipole for 40 meters, and worked Spain and France during its first night of use.  Quoting Dave, "As much as I'd like to take credit for the antenna, the propagation on 40 has been very good for me. I am looking forward to working sporadic E on six".

K6WSC - Bill  reported that he was called by DL3DXX while operating as a Cochise County Expedition during the 7^th Area QSO Party.
 

K7NN - Don introduced K6WSC - Bill for his presentation of his use of the N1MM Logger program.