Title: COS Amateur (Ham) Radio

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Ham radio is a licensed radio service that enables you to communicate all around the world and even in outer space with your equipment. It’s vital for emergency communications, and technological advancement, and it’s an incredible hobby with over 750,000 licensed hams in the United States.

Our Mission: To engage COS volunteers reaching out to American patriots and build an engaged army of self-governing grassroots activists using HAM radio  communications.

At COS we want everyone to be ready and prepared to help themselves, their families, friends, churches and communities in times of need.  Being a licensed ham operator will give you a communications advantage in an emergency.  The emergency might be a natural disaster, an enemy attack on the grid, or it could be the government choosing to shut down a communications network for political reasons.  Whatever the emergency, you’ll be better prepared to be a servant leader if you’re a licensed and knowledgable ham operator. 

It’s not as hard as it might first seem.  COS founder Mark Meckler had always wanted to learn about being a ham.  “But I found it intimidating, and couldn’t figure out where to start, because there is so much information out there, it’s overwhelming,” he said.  But with a bit of guidance from the COS Ham Coalition members, and a couple of weeks of study, he passed his first Technician license test easily, bought his first hand held radio, and was quickly his way to becoming a better servant leader by adding a new skill to his tool belt.

HAM Starter Guide

5 Reasons You May Want a Ham Radio at Home

Technician Post Test Checklist for Local Communications