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Welcome to West Valley ARC in Sun City, AZ

Welcome to West Valley ARC in Sun City, AZWelcome to West Valley ARC in Sun City, AZWelcome to West Valley ARC in Sun City, AZ

Our Mission

It shall be our mission of West Valley Amateur Radio Club to promote emergency and public service communication, radio knowledge, and promote Amateur Radio by public service, engaging events that promote amateur radio to the general public, to advance the general interest and welfare of Amateur Radio in the community, support citizens of our community in times of need and disaster. 

A Little History

In September of 1987, 100 hams got together and formed what is currently the West Valley Amateur Radio Club, but if you go clear back to the beginning in 1961, there were 7 hams from the Youngtown and Sun City areas getting together on each other's patios. 


The caption of the photo to the right reads:   

"The 1962 demo display of the Sun City Amateur Radio Club at a local shopping center. 

Pictured are George Mezey, K7NIY, and his XYL Georgie, K7NOA. Both are sadly now Silent Keys". Thanks to  Curt Faulk, N6ATC for providing this photo. 


We just celebrated 63 years of membership on October 19th!  To read about our history that Jim, N7YTI, has researched, click HERE.

To see the video creation of our 60th year celebration:  https://youtu.be/bn9NOKZREiY?si=_d3lFT1UGPInB9El


We Have Grown!

We now have over 350 club members from all over our great state.  Also snowbirds!   One of our members lives in Utah, two in Oregon, one in Washington state and another in Texas!


Much of our history is contained in our ShortSkip Newsletter.  I will be posting as many as I can, given the amount of space on this website.  This is a work in progress.  The oldest issues can be found HERE.

our club's constitution and bylaws

You can download a copy of our club's governing documents here.

WVARC Constitution as Amended and Adopted on Mar 3 2025 (pdf)Download
WVARC Bylaws as Amended and Adopted on Mar 3 2025 (pdf)Download

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