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Ham (Amateur) radio is not used by the government for any official purpose.
Communication to other hams via amateur radio to get weather reports is very critical. Using APRS, data from weather stations connected to amateur radios can be broadcasted.
It is used in ham radio terms as a term for the wife of the ham operator.
You may have a Ham radio antenna anywhere in the US, unless there are restrictions as to its placement, such as in a condo or apartment. If you meant a Ham radio transmitter, then you must have a Ham license to operate it.
Ham radio is used daily woldwide. Emergency communications during hurricane Katrina is a good recent example. We were able to pass information into and out of New Orleans without any need for cell towers, phone lines, commercial power, internet etc. Ham radio works when nothing else does.
The term 'ham' in ham (or amateur) radio comes from before radio was ever invented; it was used in wire telegraphy to denote an unskilled or inefficient telegraph operator. The original meaning has been completely lost since the term's adoption by amateur radio operators, and no longer implies the operator is an idiot.
Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams," use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training. But we still don't know the origin of the word HAM.
I assume you mean the weather bureau. As radio is less vulnerable to natural disasters than some other communications modes- well there may well be cooperation between Weather Stations (govt) and Radio Amateurs, but the Weather Services have their own band NOAA ( pronounced like Biblical characer Noah) weather radio. All NOAA announcers function anonymously. They are professional weather announcers- not hams. Maybe that"s the confusion point. NOAA is a government agency.
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HAM stands for Help All Mankind .answer 2 Nice try, but no cigar!Ham is a derivative of amateur, in the same sense as on the stage.Amateur Radio.
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