Can someone explain to me what this is?

[Pandapower]

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A friend sent me this picture of a vehicle behind them at a stop light, I was wondering if it could possibly be a mobile ham station?

[Rainmaker]

I’m a weird ham radio guy and have been for almost 50 years, and I’ve been known to experiment with many different vehicle antenna setups, but that looks ludicrous. 

It’s a stacked series of directional antennas for different bands. 

The longer the elements, the lower the frequency. Looks like a mix of VHF high band and UHF. 

The presence of so much coax makes me think those are real feedlines and working antennae.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Was it taken in tornado alley? Like Kansas or Iowa?

I vote homemade Tornado chaser truck.

[putnam6]

I was gonna suggest mobile HAARP targeting arrays... 

After a Google image search, Edmond, Oklahoma 
Reddit comments suggest Amateur HAM radio

https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmond/comments...164th_and/

[Pandapower]

Thanks you guys.

[Maxmars]

Probably one  of a number of similarly equipped vehicles...

I suppose none of the drivers are answering any questions?

[Pandapower]

I’m not a 100 percent sure, a friend sent me those I was unaware of them being on Reddit already new to the site and saw the ham radio thread and thought I would ask. I knew they were some radio just with a little experience from a fire department but nothing more than making sure cables were still plugged in.

[Pandapower]

Was it taken in tornado alley? Like Kansas or Iowa?

I vote homemade Tornado chaser truck.

Yes it’s in Oklahoma so I’d say definitely in tornado alley. But recently most of the chasers have fancy satellites and cameras now.

[imitator]

That OP image is over kill, also with antenna rotators LOL. 
Looks like 33 cm, 70cm, 1.25m and 2m antennas... maybe 6m too.
Whoever it may be... is probably a DX contester or just a crazy ham operator. 

Normally you wouldn't want your antennas so close like that because of mutual coupling...
but hey if it works and looks cool.