June 3 and 4 mark the annual Museum Ships Weekend amateur radio event during which amateur radio operators around the world commemorate the service of historic ships by operating from ship memorials, museums, or the actual ships themselves. The Montrose Amateur Radio Club will operate from the USS Montrose Memorial both days. Club members will operate an amateur radio station from the ship's memorial on South First Street in Montrose on Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, as part of the world-wide event sponsored by the Battleship New Jersey Amateur Radio Station, according to Lew French, the event coordinator. He said this is the fifth year that the USS Montrose Memorial will participate. The event encourages ham radio operators to contact as many of the participating museum ships as possible, learn the history of the ships contacted, and commemorate both the ships and those who served on them. There are currently more than 90 ships participating this year.