Special Events

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)

Planned Special Events

38th Anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum - May 6th, 2024

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

Churches on the Air

(CHOTA)

Feb 10th 10AM – 2 PM

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 -

17630 S Comino De Los Quintas , Sahuarita
Lead - Bruce Tewksbury K3BAT – 520-625-9170
Frequency- 14.242 mhz – plus or minus QRM

2) Evangelical Free Church of Green Valley -

1393 W. Mission Twin Buttes Rd, GV.
Lead - Tom Smith K7AFA – 425-649-1884
Frequency – 14.262 mhz- plus or minus QRM

3) Grace Church of Sahuarita

2301 E Sahuarita Rd, Sahuarita.
Lead – Rick Rogers K7RCR – 520-332-4137
Frequency – 14.282 mhz – plus or minus QRM

37th Anniversary of the Titan Missile Museum

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....

131 Contacts
300 QRZ look ups

Countries that heard us...

Greece
Canada
United Kingdom
Hungary
Romania
Germany
Italy

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

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

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

Vintage Radio event using vintage radios from the Discone antenna at the Missile Museum 10am-2pm.

We have another special event coming up on Tuesday April 4th from the Titan Missile Museum. This will be a vintage radio special event using a Hallicrafters Cyclone III transceiver manufactured in 1969 thanks to Bruce (K3BAT) and the 60 year old (this year) discone antenna at the museum.

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

Sunday March 19th

59th Anniversary of the founding of Green Valley, Arizona at the Titan Missile Museum 10am-2pm.
This will also be the snowbird picnic that we were suppose to have for the Valentine event but the winds got to us.

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:

Mexico
Croatia
Canada
Italy
U.S.

The bands were really not that good.

Valentine’s Day Special Event

2/14/2023

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

Look ups are a good indicator of stations who heard us, but we did not hear or recognize their call to our station.

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.

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)