Special Events
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From time to time GVARC will hold a Special Event, where our station will be on the air making contacts with other Hams from around the world. Each special event has its own unique QSL card. Many operators use these QSL cards for collector's items. Look forward to our next special event. Look for our call sign (WE7GV ) on QRZ.com. Also for N7GV)
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Planned Special Events
Valentines Day Event
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1/9/2026
The Valentines day event is scheduled for Saturday, February 14, 2026. 10am - 2pm We will be setting up using the Discone at Titan Missile Museum Even non-licensed YL's/XYL's are welcome to come by, learn about the hobby, maybe Log for one of the operators. Logging is super simple. Guys........ Let's make this perfectly clear........ we are only going to be there to help setup and take down!!! Then, we back away unless we are asked for assistance. Watch GVARC's website for more info for the event. YL's/XYL's, if you think you are wanting to attend, or have another YL/XYL, licensed or non-licensed that you would like to bring along. Please email myself or Tom Lang (K7VOA) to let us know. It will help us know how/what to plan for this event. Thank you Mike AK7MN |
Santa Cruz Valley Car Nuts
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GVARC members be sure (if you can) to join us for another
club Special event for the Santa Cruz Valley Car Nuts car show on Saturday January 31st. We'll be operating SSB from the big discone antenna at the Titan Missile Museum from 10am-2pm (localTime). If your a new club member or just received your license, it doesn't matter what grade license holder you are you'll be able to log or operate. Don't be afraid to dive in and have fun. There will be members who will be more than happy to guide you along. We'd like to see you there. And if you don't feel like operating or logging just stop on by and say hi. Tom K7VOA |
Luminaria Nights De Tubac
December 7, 2025
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Mark you Calanders Again!
December 7, 2025 10am to 2pm At the Titan Missile Museum Discone Antenna GVARC will be activating another Special Event, Luminaria Nights De Tubac We will be activating this Special Event using GVARC’s club call WE7GV You’ve never done the “Discone”? Then, come on down, it is an awesome antenna! Once again, for this event we will not be doing sign-ups. We are just going to do “1st come, 1st serve. We will ensure everybody that wants to, get’s a chance to operate. Currently we’re going with SSB only. (freq. 14.242 +/-) Only a Technician? No worries. There will be Extra Class Operators there. We will be using the Club IC-7300 (maybe an Amp) with generator. Logging software will be N3FJP on the clubs PC. Not a Club Member? No worries, come on down! Do however be mindful of Club Members. We at GVARC, are a friendly group, so a Club Member giving up their seat to a Non-Club Member is not surprising. Come by, operate, make some great contacts, and just share some awesome camaraderie! |
333rd Anniversary of San Xavier Del Bac
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10/28/2025
Mark you Calanders! November 16th, 2025 10am to 2pm At the Titan Missile Museum Discone GVARC will be celebrating the 333rd Anniversary of San Xavier Del Bac To learn more, go to About San Xavier Mission We will be activating this Special Event using GVARC’s club call WE7GVYou’ve never done the “Discone”? Then, come on down, it is an awesome antenna! Once again, for this event we will not be doing sign-ups. We are just going to do “1st come, 1st serve. We will ensure everybody get’s a chance to operate. Currently we’re going with SSB only. (freq. 14.242 +/-) Only a Technician? No worries. There will be Extra Class Operators there. We will be using the Club IC-7300 (maybe an Amp) with generator. Logging software will be N3FJP on the clubs PC. Not a Club member? No worries, come on down! Do however be mindful of Club Members. We at GVARC, are a friendly group, so a Club Member giving up their seat to a Non-Club Member is not surprising. Come by, operate, make some great contacts, and just share some awesome camaraderie! |
Juan Batista De Anza Expedition
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10/19/2025
Just a reminder of this upcoming special event. October 26th, 2025. 10am to 2pm. At the Juan Batista DeAnza Trailhead at 2105 S. Abrego Dr. (south of Continental). Since this is at a designated POTA Park, it will also be a Club POTA Activation (POTA US-4571) using the WE7GV Club Callsign. This part of the event is new to GVARC. WE7GV is now setup with Parks on the Air to do POTA Activations. It is not required, but is suggested to have a POTA Account. Getting an account is very easy. Just go to POTA.APP , click the "signup", fill out the info, submit. It is FREE! (if you have problems, call me, I'll help) Withing a day or so (sometimes sooner) you'll receive an email confirmation. With a POTA Account, we will still activate using the WE7GV callsign, but you'll enter yourself as the "Operator" and get activation credit as well (providing you make the minimum 10 contacts). We will have 1 radio setup (the club IC-7300), one antenna (the club BiddistickPro). Using SSB. We may try other modes if we have the time. We are not going to do a "signup" for this event. Just come and operate. We'll do everything we can to help you get your minimum 10 contacts. All the "Hunters" will get credit through POTA for their contact and have the option to get a Certificate for the Special Event by going to WE7GV webpage on QRZ.com and requesting one. Even if you've never done a POTA Activation, stop by, learn about it. POTA has been one of my favorite (probably my most favorite) activities in Ham Radio! I will be there around 9am setting up, this will also give you a chance to see how our new Club BuddistickPro antenna is setup and used. It is a relatively short event, so there won't be any refreshments. Bring your own beverage or snacks. Sincerely hope to see you there. It will be fun!! Mike Nester AK7MN GVARC/VP |
38th Anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum - May 6th, 2024
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5/3/2024
WE7GV will be holding a Special Event for the 38th anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum on Monday, May 6th from 10am-2pm at the museum. Stop on by and do some operating and logging. If you're a new tech licensee no problem you can still operate as we will have a couple of extra class licensees on hand. Tom K7VOA 4/10/2024
This special event is an opportunity for all c;club members to help us celebrate the 38th anniversary of our friends the Titan Missile Museum. Home of the Discone Antenna . We have a number of new licensees who may operate under the License of an Extra Control operator. And we can always use a logger to keep track of the many contacts we expect to make from around the world. 9 am to 2 pm on Monday, May 6th, 2024 in the parking lot at the base of the Discone Antenna. See you there ! |
GVARC Special Event
NOTE – All three stations will be using the WE7GV clubs special event callsign.
How to Participate: 1) From Church location- Make arrangements with the lead operator of the church or churches you wish to help make contacts or log contacts. REMEMBER: Technician class license holders can legally operate the radios and make contacts as long as a extra class license holder is present. 2) From your Home Station - Contact each of the three churches using your home or mobile HF station and your call sign. To keep it simple the exchange will be for callsign and State. Example: ( K6XXX California ) So lets play RADIO, have some FUN, and help make this Special Event successful. PLEASE ! Bruce Tewksbury K3BAT Churches On The Air ( CHOTA) -- Chairmen |
1/31/2024 Update...
All Club member are invited to participate in this special event . Club members will be setting up radio stations at these three churches here in the Green Valley / Sahuarita area. 1) Unity in the Valley -
2) Evangelical Free Church of Green Valley -
3) Grace Church of Sahuarita
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37th Anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum
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5/9/2023
We held a special event celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum today using the Discone Antenna. 10AM until 2 or 3PM. Stats for Special Event....
Countries that heard us...
We worked the U.S from Hawaii to South Carolina and Canada to Texas. Bruce K3BAT and Tom K7VOA |
42nd anniversary of GVARC being on the air
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In addition to Bruce's Special Event e-mail I would like to thank Ron Phillips, Bob George, John Lynn, Gary Carroll, and John from California for all stopping by and adding much needed support.
I must add that at one point Bruce was on the air actually saying a prayer to the band gods but to no avail. We also discovered that our second generator has a severe gas leak problem which is being taken care of. Hope we can get all fixed by Field Day. Should not be a problem. We are going to try one more Special Event before it gets too hot, and that will be May 8th for the 37th Anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum. This will be a test for the generators before Field Day including other equipment and ourselves. I'll be posting more info on QRZ.com in a few days. Tom K7VOA .4/13/2023
GVARC Special Event April 24th for the 42nd anniversary of the GVARC being on the air. Vintage Radio event using vintage radios from the Discone antenna at the Missile Museum 10am-2pm. Check WE7GV at QRZ.com for the info |
Vintage Radio event
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4/12/2023
Here are the results on the Vintage Radio Special Event. Even though the bands were horrible we made 50 on air contacts.People were hearing us... we had lookups at WE7GV on QRZ.com totaling 168. Several states heard us plus the following countries... Italy France Bulgaria Luxembourg Great Britain 4/3/2023
Weather will be cool and windy for the Special event at the Discone Antenna tomorrow. No worries we got it covered. We are going to bring a RV to keep us out of the wind and snug as a bug. Looking forward to seeing you there. Come to help make or log contacts or come to socialize with fellow hams. All are welcome. Bruce K3BAT Tuesday April 4th
It all kicks off at 10am and will run til 2 or 3 depending on how we're doing. We need loggers and operators. So please feel free to run by and participate. You can check out the certificate we'll be sending out at WE7GV at QRZ.com. Hope to see ya there, Tom K7VOA |
Green Valley 59th anniversary
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Sunday March 19th
Here are the results for the Green Valley 59th anniversary special event.
112 over the air contacts 258 WE7GV QRZ look ups 16 states worked mostly Calif. 3 countries worked over the air: Mexico, Canada and U.S. Countries that checked into QRZ.com:
The bands were really not that good. |
Valentine’s Day Special Event
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2/14/2023
120 over the air contacts
572 lookups on WE7GV QRZ page from 26 states and 10 countries including:
120 over the air contacts
572 lookups on WE7GV QRZ page from 26 states and 10 countries including:
- Japan
- USA
- Mexico
- Poland
- Norway
- Panama
- Italy
- Canada
- Netherlands
- Great Britain
75th Anniversary of the US Air Force
75th Airforce Anniversary Special Event QSL Card - Click for pdf version.
On September 17th, the club did a special event at the Titan Missile Museum from 8 AM to 4 PM using the discone antenna and the club Icom 7300. The bands were pretty good and it was very busy across the 20 meter band most all day
Many thanks to everyone who participated, and those folks were:
Tom Smith K7AFA
Sharon Smith KF7YJW
Jeanne Crane KJ7HCP
Linda Boeck
Jerry Meil W6XL
Bruce Tewksbury K3BAT
Andrew Kempin KK7HWH
Jon Otto AD7GS
John Perlick K0UM
Dave Bowen N7DMB
John Lynn KL7CY
Rick Rogers K7RCR
The station was run for a full eight hours with virtually no down time. During that time 152 contacts in 24 states were logged. The event was a great success and a fitting 75th birthday celebration for the US Air Force.
A very big thank you also to Bob Junke, K7DC who designed the custom QSL card for the event.
Thank you again to all who participated.
Many thanks to everyone who participated, and those folks were:
Tom Smith K7AFA
Sharon Smith KF7YJW
Jeanne Crane KJ7HCP
Linda Boeck
Jerry Meil W6XL
Bruce Tewksbury K3BAT
Andrew Kempin KK7HWH
Jon Otto AD7GS
John Perlick K0UM
Dave Bowen N7DMB
John Lynn KL7CY
Rick Rogers K7RCR
The station was run for a full eight hours with virtually no down time. During that time 152 contacts in 24 states were logged. The event was a great success and a fitting 75th birthday celebration for the US Air Force.
A very big thank you also to Bob Junke, K7DC who designed the custom QSL card for the event.
Thank you again to all who participated.
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Valentines Gathering followup....
What a lot fun the GVARC Valentines Gathering turned out to be, and we didn't get rained on! Well the Boy's gave it a great shot at pampering the Girls with; Brats (best seen to date), Burgers, Hot Dogs, salads, Chips and Dips, Roses, Red Velvet Cake, Chocolate Covered Peanut Clusters, Brownies and all the accessories for a great gathering. But a huge thank you also goes out to the Ladies who did a fantastic job pitching in with: Setup, Decorations, Baked Beans, helping the Boys stay focused and on task, watching over Cody and Bandit, Cleanup and much much more. We guys are truly blessed to have such great sweethearts in our lives! Thanks again to everyone for a great Team Effort in helping make yesterday a special Valentines Day Gathering. An extra special thank you to Beetle and Miss Pam for hosting Last Thursday was the special event Good thing is was not this Friday (22nd) |
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Our Special Event QSL Scrapbook
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