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DESECHEO NEWS UPDATE: Monday, February 2, 2026. The KP5/NP3VI Desecheo team has updated their operating schedule for the week beginning February 2, 2026. View the revised schedule on the DX-World web site. Click here: https://www.dx-world.net/kp5-np3vi-desecheo-dxpedition/. Also, a live stream of the teams activities is available on the Club Log web site: https://clublog.org/livestream/KP5/NP3VI.

ANNOUNCEMENT: January 17, 2026. The 2026 Edition of The ARRL Repeater Directory is now available. More info here: treasurecoasthams.com/headlines/

RESERVE THE DATES – February 13-15, 2026: Orlando HamCation® 2026 and ARRL Southeastern Division Convention. Location: Central Florida Fairgrounds and Expo Park, 4603 West Colonial Drive, Orlando, Florida 32808. More info: https://www.hamcation.com

ALERT – Texas A&M University is seeking volunteers for Palmyra Atoll project. The university is seeking four volunteers to participate in a 4-month U.S. Fish & Wildlife project on Palmyra Atoll. Training will be provided. No previous experience necessary. This might be an excellent opportunity for a ham operator with portable equipment to set up a station and operate from a remote DX location. Applications accepted until January 6, 2026. Full information and application are available here: https://jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=111223

ANNOUNCEMENT: Intrepid-DX Group Announces 6th Annual Youth Essay Contest. Information and a link to the rules and prize list are available on the News Headlines page: Latest Ham News.

NEWS FLASH: ARRL urges licensed amateurs to write their representatives in Congress and request support for H.R. 1094 and S. 4459 to permit antennas in HOAs. The full text of the request and a link to send a letter are available here: http://www.arrl.org/member-bulletin?issue=2025-09-17

NEWS FLASH: NASA seeks volunteers to track moon mission. NASA seeks amateur radio volunteers to track the upcoming 2026 Artemis II mission to the moon and back to earth. Read the full story on the Ham News page: Click here.

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REMINDER: CLUB DUES ARE DUE. It’s that time of the year again. Most of the local amateur radio clubs collect yearly dues in January. The annual dues we pay supports club activities and repeater maintenance. If you are a member of a club, please show your support by paying your 2026 dues. If you are not a member of your local club, please consider joining.

ATTENTION Treasure Coast HF & DX Group Participants: The Bob Evans restaurant where the group has held its monthly breakfast get togethers for the past several years has permanently closed. Efforts are ongoing to find a new conveniently located meeting place. Watch for further updates. The full story is available on the Ham News page: Click here.

WELCOME

TreasureCoastHams.com is the web home of Treasure Coast Ham News and The Grid Chaser’s Atlas of the DX World. And now we are also the temporary home of ADT Memories, including ADT Folks in the Service (a World War 2 project), The ADT Transmitter news magazine archive and more.

ABOUT TREASURE COAST HAM NEWS

Treasure Coast Ham News was a newsletter published for 5 years. It was dedicated to amateur radio on Florida’s Treasure Coast. Our mission was a simple one: to educate, entertain and inform area hams; and by doing so, increase excitement about amateur radio and encourage participation in local ham radio clubs and activities.

With the Winter 2024 issue, the newsletter was retired. All past issues are now archived on this web site in .pdf format. You can read or download them at your convenience.

Download the latest newsletter and back issues from the Newsletter page: TCHN Newsletters.

The newsletter’s email address is: tchamnews@gmail.com.

ABOUT THE GRID CHASER’S ATLAS

The Grid Chaser’s Atlas of the DX World is a series of spreadsheets based on the Maidenhead Grid Locator system. It documents the grids occupied by all 340 DX countries / entities recognized by DX groups and most logging services. The Atlas is intended for DXers and shortwave listeners interested in documenting countries and grids where QSOs were made.

Download a copy of the Atlas here: Grid Atlas.

The email address for the Atlas is gridatlas@gmail.com.

ABOUT THE ADT MEMORIES PAGES

ADT Folks in the Service is a project based on a series of newsletters published by The A.D.T. Company during the World War 2 years. Each newsletter contains stories and notes documenting the location and/or exploits of company associates serving in the military.

Note that The A.D.T. Company is a past name of today’s ADT, an industry leader in the security field.

The newsletters and workbook can be downloaded here: ADT Folks in the Service.

The Folks in the Service email address is: folksintheservice@gmail.com.

The ADT Transmitter was a news magazine published monthly from 1929 to 1970. Each issue contained stories describing fire and burglar alarm systems in action. More details about the magazine, along with PDF copies of selected issues, can be found on the ADT Memories page.

Click Here for the ADT Memories page.