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SAVE THE DATES… SEPTEMBER 12-20, 2026 – ROUTE 66 ON-THE-AIR. 2026 marks the 100th anniversary of America’s most famous highway. This year, 24 Special Event stations from towns along the highway will be on the air to join the celebration. For hams, the annual route 66 celebration is always a fun event. Join in and see how many of the stations you can contact. Full details and the station list are available here: https://w6jbt.org/route-66-on-the-air/

SAVE THE DATES #2 … MELBOURNE HAMFEST: Friday & Saturday, October 9-10, 2026. The 61st annual Melbourne Hamfest will be held at the Melbourne Auditorium, 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd on the dates indicated above. More info: https://pcars.org/wp/melbourne-hamfest-2026/.

WRTC 2026 SCORING UPDATED AFTER WINNER AND OTHERS DISQUALIFIED. Final results of the WRTC championship have been adjusted after an investigation disqualified the winner and others due to rule violations and other irregularities. Read the full story here: https://www.wrtc2026.org/

COLOMBIA EARTHQUAKE ALERT. As a result of the major earthquake and aftershocks that struck Colombia on August 10, 2026, amateurs are requested to avoid transmitting on the IARU Region 2 emergency frequencies of 3985, 7060, 7240, 7275, 14300, and 21360 kHz, as well as 146.520 MHz for those in VHF range of Colombia, in order to minimize potential interference to emergency communications.

SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER TRAINING – Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM. A free Skywarn Basic-Level class will be presented by the National Weather Service at Martin County Fire Rescue, 800 SE Monterey Rd, Stuart. The class is open to the public. Pre-registration is required. Details and registration info here: https://mcaraweb.com/event-6790976

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT – The Port St. Lucie (FL) License Exam Session Scheduled for August 8, 2026 Has Been Cancelled. It has been rescheduled for September 12, 2026. See the PSLARA web site for further information: https://pslara.com.

OPINIONS & EDITORIALS PAGE UPDATED. Recent updates to the Op-Ed page include a letter from an area ham with an ARRL membership dilemma. Click here to view the letter. Click here to view the Op-Ed page.

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

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REMINDER: CLUB DUES ARE DUE. If you have not yet paid your 2026 dues please consider doing so. 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.