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Welcome to West Valley ARC in Sun City, AZ

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Backup Solar For hams

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HOA Antennas

The file below contains 11-pages that are full of possible antenna ideas for a Homeowners Association.  

Former WVARC club member Gordon, NW7D, was instrumental in both providing this information, 

and for working with the Sun City Grand HOA (now known as THE GRAND) 

to make Amateur Radio antennas acceptable in the community.  Thank you Gordon!

Antennas for HOAs (pdf)

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Normal HF Noise Floor By Band And Location

Are you wondering how much noise is normal? This great table created by Basu-VU2NSB lists the normal noise floor by by Band and Location. See other great articles by Basu at https://vu2nsb.com/.

Radio Frequency Interference

The links below contain useful information for identifying and locating sources of RF interference.


RFI Reference Materials - ARRL


Potential Sources of Interference - ARRL


Locating RF Interference at HF - Tom Thompson WØIVJ

Q-Codes

Common Q-Codes from ARRL

Q-signals are a system of radio shorthand as old as wireless and developed from even older telegraphy codes. Below is a link to a great list of these codes.


Q-Codes - ARRL

Common vhf/uhf Frequencies

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