Listen to East Coast live stream(s) of Amateur HF Radio compliments of Jay James - W4BSB .... At the present time audio is streamed to the Internet 24 / 7 so listeners who are traveling, in the hospital, or away from their "Shack" can listen using their Mobile devices, Laptop or PC desktop computer. The current 3-7 second Internet audio delay can be very useful for checking to see how your HF rig sounds. The receiver is a computer programmed Ten-Tec Pegasus radio connected to a horizontally polarized antenna located up the Tall Pine receiver site in the Kempsville area of City of Virginia Beach, Va.

*** There will be times when the HF live stream feed and other radio stream feeds will not available from the Tall Pine receiver site.

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This Virginia Beach,Virginia, USA - TenTec Pegasus receiver site operates in the fully automatic mode using software developed by Carl - N4PY. If you have a high speed Broadband connection You may wish to have the latest Microsoft Windows Media Player installed on your Laptop or PC to listen. Comments and reception reports are encouraged and appreciated and should be directed to Jay James - W4BSB For those of you that have Laptops with Broadband Internet air-card service installed the mobile stream works well.

Disclaimer: The views represented by amateur radio operators you hear on this site do not necessarily represent the views of the Owner, Webmaster or Sponsors of this site.

Welcome Aboard and enjoy this site ... 73, Jay - W4BSB

....... ..Listen live to Dallas Amateur HF Radio

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The Farm

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Visiting Uncle Hugh at the farm after Sunday services at Zoar's Church near Bristersburg, VA.

"It was in November of 1949 ... I was 8 years old and getting to stay up late to "play radio" as Uncle called it, with a funny looking thing he said was a " key". Over in the corner of the room was some military surplus equipment with tubes that glowed in the dark. Everything was inside a wooden cage covered with chicken wire and a High Voltage sign hanging on the outside of the cage. ... I was simply fascinated with what my Uncle Hugh said the strange noises (CW) were saying coming out of that old Bendix speaker"

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I am currently 67 years young and just getting back into amateur radio after 45 years of being away. Over the past 45 years I have been active mostly in Public Safety Radio Communications as a City of Hampton Police Officer, Virginia State Trooper ... Owner of Colonial Communications and Electronics Inc., Commercial Two-way Radio Service Centers serving Southside Virginia and Northern North Carolina.

I retired for the 3rd time in 2001 and still work 50 hours a week as an IT / Network Operations Manager. That keeps me active, gives me a reason to get out of the house every day, and a chance to stay up to date with what is happening in the radio communications and electronics industry. I enjoy experimenting with antennas, wireless devices, building PC's and computer networks. Two years ago I started restoring the Kenwood TS-520S series transceivers for my antique "but they all work" corner of my shack. (see the photo)

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After the shack photo (above) was taken ... I added two TenTec Pegasus radios with the associated PC gear to accommodate control of both. Several other radios have been added to both the shack and the SUV. Several antennas were added to the Tall Pine receiver site (above) to improve communications on other frequencies of interest.

My mobile SUV installation is complete with all the necessary toys to make any Ham Operator proud. At my age if I'm going to have a mobile toy box then it's "Gonna" have ALL the toys. Hi Hi.

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12 MAY 2008