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 64 years as a club! 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 300 club members from all over our great state - also snowbirds! We have members from multiple states around the country.
Much of our history is contained in our ShortSkip Newsletter. This is a work in progress. The oldest issues can be found HERE.
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PO Box 1573, Sun City, AZ. 85372-1573, USA
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