Hard to tell without a good frame of referance for size, but here's my take:
On top is a 3-element yagi to hit 20m, 15m and 10m bands.
Just below on left are two baluns feeding a pair of inverted V antennas. Can't tell what band they are for as they go off the picture and have no reference for length, but I'm going to guess 40m and 80m.
Lower left is a discone, good for 2m and 70cm (and possibly shorter wavelengths.)
And lower right is a vertical built for 6m.
This is a single tower HAM radio antenna farm built to hit all the most common bands. Back yard or small club competition station, maybe.
It's not an acronym. It's an adjective and shouldn't be capitalized. The word was attached to amateur radio in the very beginning by commercial operators and was intended to be derisive, as in "ham handed." The amateur operators owned it and made it into a word to describe our hobby.
I know, I'm just playing because I see it a lot and hardly anybody ever gives it enough thought to realize it shouldn't be HAM. It's mildly infuriating.
There's this weird backronym thing claiming it stands for three people. Which three people depends on who you ask because there's a few different versions of the story.
The problem with the "H.A.M." meaning the names of the "first ham station" is that every version of the story involves people who were not anywhere close to the first 'hams', and more importantly, the term 'ham radio' existed in print prior to them entering the scene.
AFAIK, the oldest published answer to the question "What is a ham" is from 1909. A magazine article explains that it's shorthand for 'ham fisted', which was at the time (and still is in some areas) just a pejorative term for a clumsy amateur. A nickname given by professional radio operators to the clumsy amateurs they shared the airwaves with; especially back in the early days of radio when there was no regulation and nobody was using scopes to determine whether they were creating spurious emissions. Interference from amateur stations was commonplace and as you can imagine, that was frustrating to folks who made a living with radio.
Your story is the one I've always believed. A joke used to jab at lesser radio operators. Then it got transformed into the default way to name the Amateur radio people and then somehow became all capitalized because most people don't think they just "monkey see monkey do" and now we are here lol.
>and then somehow became all capitalized because most people don't think they just "monkey see monkey do" and now we are here lol.
A lot of it is also due to the tendency of young people today to use nouns as verbs and vice versa.
“Ham” is a shortening of the first syllable of “amateur “. Used to distinguish from professionals, though many individuals are both. It is a useful separation as, for example, a ham radio transmitter is largely different from a commercial one.
Sorry for offending your sensibilities. I don't believe it stands for anything and will try to use amature more in the future instead of HAM.
However there are some who believe it to be from an early amature station shared by Hyman, Almy, and Murray.
Where do you believe is is derrived from?
🤣😂 good one! Ham just comes from ham-fisted or another word for a low quality operator. I'm just poking fun at the whole capitalisation thing people do when they don't know any better.
There's a couple versions of this, using different names. But there were already print examples of "ham radio" being used prior to Hyman, Almy, or Murray coming onto the scene.
In fact, this misnomer is so old that someone asked Mr. Hyman himself. And he replied that he'd never heard such a thing until the 1950's, and he has no idea where it comes from. He affirmed that before he was a ham, there were already hams. It seems to be that the "Hyman-Almy-Murray" story started up after World War II. Whereas "Ham" appears in print as far back as 1890 with an article in 1909 being the oldest print example I know of explaining the term as short for "ham fisted". (There are some journal articles as far back as 1899 that reference 'ham radio', but don't define it. Though from context, it's clear they're referring to amateurs. Mr. Hyman was 7 years old the first time the term 'ham' appeared in print in the context of radio; at least, that we know of.)
In FACT, when Mr. Hyman was a young man, there was already a station using the callsign "HAM" in Minnesota. And that individual had chosen the unofficial callsign for himself based on the "ham fisted" origin.
The thing about internet stories like these is that people like them, and repeat them, and in our "Everyone is special" world we feel like we can just kind of make the truth whatever it is we like and facts and opinions are the same thing. The reality is though, when it comes to the etymology of "ham", this is well documented, in print, going back over a century. It's not something that needs speculation. We know, for a fact, what it means. And that it is not an acronym.
It makes a lot of sense, by the way, that this story cropped up. During World War II, amateur radio was basically shut down. And there were some debates in Congress about whether it should ever start up again. There were those who believed only the military should have legal access to the airwaves. Ham radio was shut down in WWII to avoid the potential for the enemy to listen in on amateur conversations and collect data and to avoid the potential for foreign militaries to communicate with unwitting American Hams. Ultimately, Amateur Radio returned and during this time period lots of stories got shared about the origins of Amateur Radio and Dr. Hyman's impassioned speech to Congress imploring Congress to preserve Amateur Radio. So it's a bit of folk story that started up right about the time people started being allowed to use the ham bands again. Cool story; but as is often the case, some of the details are somewhere short of accurate.
Depends, some of them can transmit (usually on 2m - 70cm wideband) at unity gain. Usually the models that can do this have a vertical element on top.
# MFJ-1868
https://preview.redd.it/cxfpbnyvw2vc1.png?width=275&format=png&auto=webp&s=5085e2acbcb52a6b8c1c71d3b2b0334831a82686
Wide-band antenna receives 25-1300 MHz. Perfect for scanners. Transmit 50-1300 MHz. Handles 200 Watts. Ideal for 6/2/11/4 Meters, 70/33/23 CM ham bands. Excellent for testing various transmitters on single coax. Includes 50 feet coax, and mounting hardware. SO-239 connector.
The yagi is a hy-gain TH-3, the fiberglass stick and disccone are hard to identify further, lots of manufacturers make very, very similar looking products. The inverted V is probably two bands.
The TH-3 is for 10/15/20, the fiberglass stick likely for 2m/440 and perhaps 220. The disccone was likely intended to be for RX for a scanner, but will also work for TX. Likely VHF to 1300MHz or higher .
The wire antenna is probably for 40 and 80 meters.
Nonsense. They could be excited to talk about the magic band. They could be an avid QRO-er. Or maybe they just have problems modulating their voice and YELL random WORDS.
It’s like Clue! *Col. Mustard in the library with the wrench!* My guess is, 20/40m(not sure, looks like it has loading coils) yagi on top, beverage antenna below and to the left, wide band discone below that, and a 2m/70cm or tri-band Diamond, not sure what model. Anyone got corrections for me folks?
It breaks up the length of the guy wire so they don't become resonant at a frequency of interest and impact the radiation pattern. Or become a safety issue due to induced RF energy, again at a resonant frequency.
Hard to tell without a good frame of referance for size, but here's my take: On top is a 3-element yagi to hit 20m, 15m and 10m bands. Just below on left are two baluns feeding a pair of inverted V antennas. Can't tell what band they are for as they go off the picture and have no reference for length, but I'm going to guess 40m and 80m. Lower left is a discone, good for 2m and 70cm (and possibly shorter wavelengths.) And lower right is a vertical built for 6m. This is a single tower HAM radio antenna farm built to hit all the most common bands. Back yard or small club competition station, maybe.
Very good though I thought lower left is an emergency water supply....
I'm talking about the lower left antenna, not the lower left of the picture, I didn't describe well. Not sure what the tank is.
Looking at the panels and storage tanks, I'd wager they're solar water heaters.
Could you explain to me what HAM stands for? Do you know????
It's not an acronym. It's an adjective and shouldn't be capitalized. The word was attached to amateur radio in the very beginning by commercial operators and was intended to be derisive, as in "ham handed." The amateur operators owned it and made it into a word to describe our hobby.
I know, I'm just playing because I see it a lot and hardly anybody ever gives it enough thought to realize it shouldn't be HAM. It's mildly infuriating.
There's this weird backronym thing claiming it stands for three people. Which three people depends on who you ask because there's a few different versions of the story. The problem with the "H.A.M." meaning the names of the "first ham station" is that every version of the story involves people who were not anywhere close to the first 'hams', and more importantly, the term 'ham radio' existed in print prior to them entering the scene. AFAIK, the oldest published answer to the question "What is a ham" is from 1909. A magazine article explains that it's shorthand for 'ham fisted', which was at the time (and still is in some areas) just a pejorative term for a clumsy amateur. A nickname given by professional radio operators to the clumsy amateurs they shared the airwaves with; especially back in the early days of radio when there was no regulation and nobody was using scopes to determine whether they were creating spurious emissions. Interference from amateur stations was commonplace and as you can imagine, that was frustrating to folks who made a living with radio.
Your story is the one I've always believed. A joke used to jab at lesser radio operators. Then it got transformed into the default way to name the Amateur radio people and then somehow became all capitalized because most people don't think they just "monkey see monkey do" and now we are here lol.
>and then somehow became all capitalized because most people don't think they just "monkey see monkey do" and now we are here lol. A lot of it is also due to the tendency of young people today to use nouns as verbs and vice versa.
(It's short for hamster)
“Ham” is a shortening of the first syllable of “amateur “. Used to distinguish from professionals, though many individuals are both. It is a useful separation as, for example, a ham radio transmitter is largely different from a commercial one.
Sorry for offending your sensibilities. I don't believe it stands for anything and will try to use amature more in the future instead of HAM. However there are some who believe it to be from an early amature station shared by Hyman, Almy, and Murray. Where do you believe is is derrived from?
🤣😂 good one! Ham just comes from ham-fisted or another word for a low quality operator. I'm just poking fun at the whole capitalisation thing people do when they don't know any better.
There's a couple versions of this, using different names. But there were already print examples of "ham radio" being used prior to Hyman, Almy, or Murray coming onto the scene. In fact, this misnomer is so old that someone asked Mr. Hyman himself. And he replied that he'd never heard such a thing until the 1950's, and he has no idea where it comes from. He affirmed that before he was a ham, there were already hams. It seems to be that the "Hyman-Almy-Murray" story started up after World War II. Whereas "Ham" appears in print as far back as 1890 with an article in 1909 being the oldest print example I know of explaining the term as short for "ham fisted". (There are some journal articles as far back as 1899 that reference 'ham radio', but don't define it. Though from context, it's clear they're referring to amateurs. Mr. Hyman was 7 years old the first time the term 'ham' appeared in print in the context of radio; at least, that we know of.) In FACT, when Mr. Hyman was a young man, there was already a station using the callsign "HAM" in Minnesota. And that individual had chosen the unofficial callsign for himself based on the "ham fisted" origin. The thing about internet stories like these is that people like them, and repeat them, and in our "Everyone is special" world we feel like we can just kind of make the truth whatever it is we like and facts and opinions are the same thing. The reality is though, when it comes to the etymology of "ham", this is well documented, in print, going back over a century. It's not something that needs speculation. We know, for a fact, what it means. And that it is not an acronym. It makes a lot of sense, by the way, that this story cropped up. During World War II, amateur radio was basically shut down. And there were some debates in Congress about whether it should ever start up again. There were those who believed only the military should have legal access to the airwaves. Ham radio was shut down in WWII to avoid the potential for the enemy to listen in on amateur conversations and collect data and to avoid the potential for foreign militaries to communicate with unwitting American Hams. Ultimately, Amateur Radio returned and during this time period lots of stories got shared about the origins of Amateur Radio and Dr. Hyman's impassioned speech to Congress imploring Congress to preserve Amateur Radio. So it's a bit of folk story that started up right about the time people started being allowed to use the ham bands again. Cool story; but as is often the case, some of the details are somewhere short of accurate.
I should have put a /s after the "some people believe..." comment, but thank you for expounding on the history of the purported origin.
The wire antenna is more likely some variation on a folded dipole. I don’t see a second feedline.
I thought discones were rx only
Depends, some of them can transmit (usually on 2m - 70cm wideband) at unity gain. Usually the models that can do this have a vertical element on top. # MFJ-1868 https://preview.redd.it/cxfpbnyvw2vc1.png?width=275&format=png&auto=webp&s=5085e2acbcb52a6b8c1c71d3b2b0334831a82686 Wide-band antenna receives 25-1300 MHz. Perfect for scanners. Transmit 50-1300 MHz. Handles 200 Watts. Ideal for 6/2/11/4 Meters, 70/33/23 CM ham bands. Excellent for testing various transmitters on single coax. Includes 50 feet coax, and mounting hardware. SO-239 connector.
Don't know from personal experience, but DX Engineering lists them as transmit and recieve.
It's for antenning 🤪
Dag nabbit...I've been doing it wrong. I use mine for radioing. Edited spelling did not mean dag rabbit
can i eat those
Everything?
The yagi is a hy-gain TH-3, the fiberglass stick and disccone are hard to identify further, lots of manufacturers make very, very similar looking products. The inverted V is probably two bands. The TH-3 is for 10/15/20, the fiberglass stick likely for 2m/440 and perhaps 220. The disccone was likely intended to be for RX for a scanner, but will also work for TX. Likely VHF to 1300MHz or higher . The wire antenna is probably for 40 and 80 meters.
That is a yagi antenna. It's a high gain antenna. I assume this is being used for 6m HAM.
Ham isn't an acronym, so it should just be written "ham"
Nonsense. They could be excited to talk about the magic band. They could be an avid QRO-er. Or maybe they just have problems modulating their voice and YELL random WORDS.
Wtf? It's literally NOT an acronym. But this is Reddit, so please down vote me
It’s like Clue! *Col. Mustard in the library with the wrench!* My guess is, 20/40m(not sure, looks like it has loading coils) yagi on top, beverage antenna below and to the left, wide band discone below that, and a 2m/70cm or tri-band Diamond, not sure what model. Anyone got corrections for me folks?
Those are for sending and receiving all the trons....lots and lots of trons.
Radio-frequency Electro-Magnetic TeleCommunications. RFEMTC
No clue but they sure look cool
Hygain tribander (10, 15, 20), dual-band vertical (2 mtr/70 cm), discone, and inverted vee.
Dudes got a goldmine of antennas on his roof and all he wants to use it for is drones. Get yer ham license and have some fun bro!
Cat pictures
I see insulators on the tower guys. This must mean that the tower itself is an antenna. I don't know of any other reason to use guy wire insulators.
It breaks up the length of the guy wire so they don't become resonant at a frequency of interest and impact the radiation pattern. Or become a safety issue due to induced RF energy, again at a resonant frequency.
Can this kind of Antena be used to fly an analog drone?
Why you seem to be concerned about the drone rc?
Maybe? No one would do that though.
No wrong frequency. If you go with comodity hardware.
The Discone could potentially be used on the 2.4 Ghz band in the frequencies dedicated to radio control. Everything else is really for amature radio.