{ "activity_count": 13, "callsign": "VA3V", "confidence": 0.85, "first_seen": "2025-10-25T18:36:04+00:00", "found": true, "id": 16369, "is_net_control": true, "last_seen": "2026-06-11T22:23:59.351301+00:00", "occurrence_count": 19, "profile": { "confidence": 0.8664, "counts": { "ncs": 0, "net": 0, "open_qso": 19 }, "data_freshness": "2025-12-22T09:01:39", "latest_topic": "repeater link issue", "most_topic": "weather and climate", "open_vs_net_bias_score": -0.995, "personal_summary": "VA3V is a knowledgeable and friendly operator who often shares information about weather and climate events.", "scores": { "civility": 0.9, "focus": 0.6, "friendly": 0.9, "helpful": 0.7, "serious": 0.8, "technical": 0.5 }, "source": "legacy_callsign_profiles", "summary": "VA3V frequently discusses weather and climate phenomena, occasionally mentions ham radio operations, and is generally helpful.", "topic_coverage": { "climate": "0.4", "ham radio operations": "0.3", "weather": "0.3" }, "updated_at": "2025-12-23T18:39:03" }, "qrz_status": null, "recent_transcripts": [ { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-12-22T09:00:44+00:00", "id": 84577, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 84576, "text": "Alright Darren, I've got your IO, thank you very much. Tim, I've got you on the list. KI7, ZEI, more stations." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-12-22T04:14:16+00:00", "id": 83610, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 83609, "text": "Larry, do me a favor and take Peter VE1WIN because he's been popping in and out so please take him first." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-12-22T00:02:16+00:00", "id": 82793, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 82792, "text": "Kielo, Juliet 5-I, India, Romeo, Quebec, KJ 5-I, RQ. Whiskey, Julia, 9-I, I know what I was going to say there, Gray. I'll stand my turn. WJ 9-E." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-12-21T14:31:24+00:00", "id": 81117, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 81116, "text": " Well hi Jack, well this is two-fold, number one, we were starting to peter out here pretty quick until JSM got on, so I thought I'd help keep it moving, and then I beat Michael, again in the four WA7AD. So I'm smiling as I say that. Anyway, I'm thinking of the neural networks and GPD and those ceramic figurines, my gosh, those are just great. Trying to think of how much you could do with those or all the hamsters would be a nice collection. Anyway, going to do mahjong today, I hope to win a few games. Yesterday I spent about three hours with my friend Bob down in California on MS Games, aka Skype, we still call it Skype, and talked about a lot of things like we normally do. Anyway, that's about all I have other than right now I'm dreaming of guess what," }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-11-01T18:27:03+00:00", "id": 73958, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 73957, "text": " Alright, so, big story as I mentioned is Hurricane Melissa. Hurricane Melissa set a number of records and it was an absolutely devastating storm for what it was. So, Melissa is currently still out there, it's become an extra tropical cyclone and it's racing off into the North Atlantic. At this point in time it doesn't really pose a significant threat to anyone. It's going to end up just south of Reykjavik, so it's heading up way into the North Atlantic. But it did bring some unsettled weather to Atlantic Canada and obviously any boats floating around in the North Atlantic. But it basically impacted Jamaica, Cuba and parts of the Bahamas before blasting north and giving some unsettled weather to Bermuda. Let me cycle it." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-11-01T18:24:38+00:00", "id": 73954, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 73953, "text": " And even if they happen to make it through the atmosphere, the vast majority of meteors and even smaller asteroids tend to hit the bodies of water, the ocean, the Atlantic Pacific Ocean, in comparison to how many actually hit land." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-11-01T18:22:41+00:00", "id": 73948, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 73947, "text": " Thanks, Gabe." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-11-01T18:03:44+00:00", "id": 73891, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 73890, "text": " And before going further, Tom, come on in, VH-VWX." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-10-25T18:41:13+00:00", "id": 68695, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 68694, "text": " Yeah, the station, you're not making it at all. If you'd like to try again in a little bit, come on back. But couldn't make anything out of that. Great enough, your audio is very low and there's noise there as well. All right, Tom, thanks for coming in this week with the climate update. Appreciate it each week. Quick question for you. You're not related to what you're talking about here this evening. Victor, press here. What's it look like this year?" }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-10-18T19:06:17+00:00", "id": 63565, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 63564, "text": " And to give you an idea of the size of this anomaly, basically spans the entire North Pacific basin, stretching nearly 8,000 kilometers from Japan to the west coast of North America. That's 5,000 miles, right? That's a huge, that's a big area. So very, very warm water sitting in this area. And scientists are basically, they believe at this point in time that this is a direct result of anthropogenic climate change. That's what it seems to, the consensus seems to be there's like a 90%, they believe that 90% of this is being induced by anthropogenic climate change. Again, they're still working on the exact factors that are leading to this. Since that area is a bit of a data hole, so the best we have to use is satellite data, which isn't always the greatest. It's nice to have boys everywhere, but of course, that's a big dead zone, so we don't have boys everywhere. The marine impacts, they're a little concerning. The warm water is less nutrient rich, and that basically causes a cascade of ecological effects. Let me drop it." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-10-18T18:30:50+00:00", "id": 63531, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 63530, "text": " So what happened in this case is that there was a depression over the northwest Bay of Bengal. And this essentially coupled with the site, you also had another tropical system form, Storm Shakti in the Arabian Sea. So these two systems interacted and their interaction essentially funneled a whole bunch of warm, moist air northward into the Himalayas. And of course once this really warm, saturated air hit the mountains, it lifted, it condensed between the mountain slope conditions, and all the dynamic forcing and hydrostatic effects, that sort of stuff. You had a blizzard develop, right? Plain and simply, you had a blizzard develop, right? And that's what happened. So it's sort of unusual to have, it's bad luck in a way since you had these two systems interact at this time of the year. It's not unheard of, it's just where everything culminated was right on Mount Everest or within the vicinity of Mount Everest. So of course all these people trying to climb to the summit or get up to base camp, they were in deep, deep trouble. And of course one of the compounding issues was that the heavy snow would also cut off road access, and there were tents that collapsed and things like that. So it was pretty insane. Some of the people that were in tents had to clean their tents every 90 minutes to prevent them from collapsing. So it was a pretty big deal. By about Monday, October 6th, they had 350 people that had been evacuated to the town of Kudang. And by the 7th of October, the remaining stranded people, about 900 of them had been evacuated. And of course at this point in time, one person was reported dead, and there were like 11 or 12 people that had some severe injuries from frostbite and hypothermia. So there you have it. If you want to go climb Mount Everest, just make sure the weather is in your favor." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-10-18T18:18:35+00:00", "id": 63522, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 63521, "text": " And Tom, you three get a view, come on in." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-09-27T18:50:14+00:00", "id": 48151, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 48150, "text": " Further to the north, Cottage Country and in particular Algonquin, that's a very popular park here. They're more what you would expect, although their colors are a little early. Usually they don't see 80% color change until the first week of October leading into the second week. Right now they're at 80% color change. They only have 20% leaf fall, so this week and next week. Or the remainder of this week and the next week are probably peaked for Algonquin and surrounding areas. So if you want to get up there, go up there. I like to get up there and kayak around in the fall colors. I don't know if I'll have time, but I'll try. But like I was mentioning, for other places that are seeing like 20% color change and 20% leaf fall, that's actually a result of the drought that we've had. So it was a very, very hot summer. A lot of heat periods that had a long duration. And then we simply in August did not get much of any rainfall. It was just hot and dry and then it was cool and dry. And what happened was this stressed out the leaf. So we saw soil moisture at a depth of about 100 centimeters, that's three feet, it's more than three feet, getting down to the point where it's very dry. So a lot of the tall grasses and other plants that aren't deeply rooted, they were getting really stressed out. And the trees get stressed out. You begin to see it in the trees once you get very dry soil at about the 100 centimeter mark because the moisture distribution of the soil below 100 centimeters, the soil tends to become more dry below 100 centimeters naturally. It varies depending on where you are, but the 100 centimeter marker is really great for drought because it indicates both plants on the surface, so deeper grasses, they'll get affected as well as anything above that. And the trees seem to start really reacting when it hits that 100 centimeter depth mark. Let me cycle it." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-09-20T18:44:40+00:00", "id": 43040, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 43039, "text": " Victor Alpha 3, Victor Iski X-Ray 4AD and the last one was Typhoon Nogori this one right now it's a very strong typhoon, winds of 220 kilometers an hour but it's not threatening anyone or anything it's meandering north the Pacific it's way over there's nothing there the closest land mass would be Japan PropRite say and it's not going to impact at least not directly they might get some waves and stuff from it but it's basically going north and it's just going to fade out but it is intensifying at this point in time so it's probably going to peak early Sunday afternoon as a super typhoon with winds of about 250 kilometers an hour before it starts weakening that's what's going on with those two storms out there again very very powerful storms and the only other one out there there is a disturbance near Cabo Verde keeping an eye on that not really a good chance of development in the next couple days and they're just watching the usual development area to the south but again Gabrielli is the only storm that's closest to North America it's going to recoil back and head over to Europe and they've also been having some historic heat in parts of Europe I'll mention that really quickly, let me cycle it" }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-09-20T18:34:37+00:00", "id": 43022, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 43021, "text": " Okay, so you say a turtle. I got you for that. Okay, William, you want to come back in? Yeah, something to do with bananas, I think, Ken. Banana worm or banana slug, I think. Another one comes to mind, too. There's a sloth, I think. That's the only other one I can think of. That'd be really slow, anyway. Back to Nat." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-09-06T18:22:37+00:00", "id": 33640, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 33639, "text": " VA3VWX. I've sent him a message. I don't know if there's an issue with the link with the repeater. If not I'll get him to come through locally through my node." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-08-30T20:15:05+00:00", "id": 28579, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 28578, "text": " Thank you." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-08-30T19:59:03+00:00", "id": 28562, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 28561, "text": " Yeah, that's perfect. And I guess the location services in the phone tells the tower that I'm within the range of whatever that tower is." }, { "callsign_confidence": 0.85, "confidence": null, "created_at": "2025-08-30T19:39:33+00:00", "id": 28541, "node_number": "oldsys", "recording_id": 28540, "text": "" } ] }