For those of you that may have accidentally come across this website while surfing the net, let us tell you a little about us.  We are an Amateur Radio club in central Ohio called the "Central Ohio Operators Klub Extra - Novice" or COOKEN. Yes , we need to take spelling lessons but maybe that helps define our loose and informal club philosophy.  All our members wanted a low key club to share our enthusiasm of the amateur radio hobby and thus COOKEN was born..  It was founded by our trustee and charter president Fritz Tender, WD8E.

    Amateur Radio is a fascinating hobby and recent changes in the FCC licensing structure make entry and upgrades easier than ever. See the link to our national ham organization www.arrl.org  for more info on the hobby and how much fun it can be.

    All COOKEN members welcome new hams or hams wanting to get active again.

    We take pride in serving local agencies such as EMA, Red Cross, and several civic organizations with emergency or auxiliary civic event communications when needed.  This can take the form of local vhf/uhf units which can operate with or without repeater systems all the way up to state wide voice and digital  communications links and nets.  Most COOKEN members are also members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service which is also called ARES.

 

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