{"activity_count":138,"callsign":"VE1EP","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-20T04:15:30+00:00","found":true,"id":2780,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T10:29:32.015996+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":110,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":103,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Balloon updates and TransCanada Net participation","most_topic":"Balloon updates and TransCanada Net participation","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.6,"personal_summary":"VE1EP frequently shares technical details and personal experiences, showing a strong interest in the hobby and a willingness to help others.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.8,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.9,"serious":0.7,"technical":0.8},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"VE1EP is an active participant in various amateur radio nets and open QSOs, often providing updates on balloon projects and engaging with other operators.","topic_coverage":{"Balloon updates":0.4,"Personal experiences":0.1,"Technical discussions":0.2,"TransCanada Net participation":0.3},"updated_at":"2026-06-29T07:19:25.845064"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T19:12:04+00:00","id":8826,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8825,"text":" Hello, Papa. The name is Emil from Halifax. This week we had a successful launch on my V1EP-1, the Pico balloon. Now over the mid-Atlantic, heading towards the UK. If you want to track this balloon or any other balloons, please check out my QRZ page. Quite amazing actually. 0.25 milliwatts is transmitting and being heard from Australia. So, on 20 meters. To stop maybe I'd share. Thanks to that control, Victor Echo One. Echo Papa. Lovely. I love to track weather balloons. Thank you for that message. Alright. Nothing else? Oh, I did. I think I did. Who knows? I may have, I may not have. We had Kilo, Julian Five, Julian Oscar, Mike, Robert in Texas. Glad to have you, my friend. We had our good buddy Doug, Kale, Fly, Y down here in Chattanooga. You're on the log. I don't know. We had Matt in Frankfort, Illinois. Kilo Delta Nine, Golf of the River X-Ray on the log. Alright, we're going into Trivium. I'm going to let Joe tell you all about it. Ray found these questions for us out by four Echo Zulu and Joe's going to read them. K and that whiskey. Mr. Joe, you ready, my friend?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-19T18:53:36+00:00","id":7748,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7747,"text":" Yeah, thank you Ken. As you're aware I follow on my tours. I page the Pico balloons that are circling the Earth. Today we're walking 296 Pico balloons. Last week we had 70 balloons that were launched. This week we only had 52. Yesterday we had 10 new Pico balloon launches. And we had 34 Pico balloons at Deacon today. I was pleased to be able to sponsor Pico balloon with my callsign Victor Echo One Echo Papa. It was launched July 15 at 1300 Zulu. From last night it was at the Great Lakes, crossed over Ottawa. And this morning when Deacon had 11 o'clock he had crossed over Stucher and heading for Newport Land."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T11:42:40+00:00","id":8484,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8483,"text":" I'm trying to call you there, Victor Echo One Echo Papa. We'll stand by."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T18:20:00+00:00","id":8764,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8763,"text":" Alaska, glad to have you my friend. We picked up Kilo India, six whiskey, Papa Kilo, our buddy Bill in San Francisco, California. We got Victor Echo, one echo, papa. And Halifax, Canada, glad to have you my friend. And we also picked up our buddy John up in Leavenworth, Kansas, Kilo Fox, zero, Lima, November Zoo, on the Sunday.net here in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Glad to have each and every one of y'all. Man, this is fun tonight, and I hope y'all are all having a good time. We're doing the light checks, light checks, any call, anywhere, any mode. Call signs two times, once phonetically, give me a name, give me a location, let me know what mode or frequency you're on. Do I have any other light checks before we go into announcements and trivia?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T18:46:04+00:00","id":8796,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8795,"text":" modulation, it's just noise. Alright, I got a space in my log now. Hold on, let me fix this. Emmett, fix that however you want it. I'm sure whatever I do will be wrong. And I'll go to Victor Echo One, Echo Papa. What's that announcement you had?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T18:26:15+00:00","id":8771,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8770,"text":" Echo 1, Echo Papa. Victor, Echo 1, Echo Papa. Email coming into the VO1 UKZ link."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T19:08:20+00:00","id":8823,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8822,"text":" Echo Papa, Victor Echo One, Echo Papa with a short announcement."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-09T18:15:58+00:00","id":15556,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15555,"text":" Victor echo one echo papa with a short report for you And i'm gonna call you right in let me just get one more shot i'll be right back to you Um any additional stations like to join us come on in science You"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T11:30:27+00:00","id":15833,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15832,"text":" from the UK, yes now 25 past seven over here. I think, before I remember, my best contact was probably just got broken by a foundation license, I was only about 10, 15 watts per mile from the East Coast of the UK over to Brazil. So yeah, I haven't really joined that much since then. To be honest, I'm not a Jeff Reeks' here. I haven't really been on much, but yes, thank you, thank you for both of them, and cheers for the check-in. All right, Ulrich, Ulrich de Cruz, it says here, welcome to the net, thanks for joining us, and welcome to the hobby. I guess foundation is the first level over there in the UK. And it says here you're from Lowestoft, which is where my dad's from. So I've actually been there. Thanks for joining us. And we have less than three minutes to go, so I'm gonna wrap it up. This has been the TransCanada Net for August 10, 2025, thanks to the Canada Hub for hosting it. They're at thecanadahub.ca. The North Fraser Amature Radio Club for also helping out. Check them out at ve7nfr.com. Check out Victor Echo One Echo Papa for all the stuff about balloons, and also Scott Victor Alpha Seven Sierra Lima. And we'll be back next week at 1 p.m. Eastern next Sunday, at 1 p.m. Eastern, for another edition of the TransCanada Net. Thanks to everyone who checked into this one. It wouldn't be successful without all the great participation. It would just be me asking for check-ins. And no one wants to hear that. Okay, thanks a lot, 73. Have a great week, everyone. V3, RWEJ."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T11:48:49+00:00","id":15862,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15861,"text":" Oh Roger Roger you alright? Yeah this is, every time you turn the radio on it's a little bit different. I was going to say on the other net that I think my longest call was on a homemade cubicle quad that I had built on itself in the backyard. It was only about 150 feet above sea level here and I talked all over the world with that with 50 watts and one that I remember because somebody else mentioned it was Estonia and it was a great contact for 50 watts and just swinging that big monster cubicle quad and I was with cast iron and I burned out a couple of rotors, rotated that huge homemade quad. So we'll be standing by and listening to you, good talking to you. 73, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa, this is November 1 Oscar Delta Echo 73."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T10:18:53+00:00","id":11111,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11110,"text":" Okay, well that does that one pretty good. Okay, so now we're looking at maritime stations. Any maritime stations in Canada that would like to check in, please come now, this is VA3LP. This is repeater station E.L.U. Victor Echo One Echo Papa Affordable. 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. I have Victor Echo One Echo Papa. E-mail, please go ahead with your report."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T10:21:29+00:00","id":17908,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17907,"text":" VE1EP disconnected. QSL given, 2 delta 0 papa echo yankee. I agree 100% with you. Even though this is not the one that I'm using most lately for the reason I said, I do have the registered version. I also bought the ham radio deluxe to run with my IC7300 and it's a perfect match. Thanks for sharing. Do we have any more station in the UK that would like to participate to today's TransCanada net and answer our today's question? VE2 vector bravo for the TransCanada net again. Mike 7, Mike Lima, uniform mobile."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T10:26:31+00:00","id":17918,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17917,"text":" Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa, Sla-3-9."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T10:31:05+00:00","id":17922,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17921,"text":" Thank you, Benoit. Bonjour tout monde. I'd like to make a short little comment on VE7NFR-11. It's still circling the earth. It's eight days with no solid beacon, but we're assured that it's over the Arctic and because of the low elevation of the sun, that's probably why we're not getting reports. For more information, you can check the website, ve7nfr.com. The other interest in the launch is the next launch dedication is going to be for Salek T, Ted Sinkin, Victor Alpha 7, Yankee Quebec Quebec, scheduled for this upcoming Saturday. They're going to hopefully get the weather and we'll have the family and friends there for this dedication. And my perfect, my best program for computer is Linux. I can't program it, but it works fine for one that's not skilled in computer work. So back to net control, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa Portable slash VE9. VE1 Echo Papa slash VE9, this is VE2 Victor Bravo. Thank you, Emil. Thanks for pointing us to VE7NFR website for the next launch on the next Saturday. And all the information can be found there and okay for your favorite software. Even though it's not exactly a software, but Linux is an operating system just like Windows or Mac OS on Apple. Among those on Linux, are you using any special application for a hamster radio operation in your shack?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-17T11:05:54+00:00","id":17982,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17981,"text":" Victor Echo One Echo Papa with a recheck. The One Echo Papa rechecked. Go ahead Emil."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T10:17:18+00:00","id":15799,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15798,"text":" Node 5, ground 2, 4, 1, and altitude 2. Node 6, 2, 2, 2, 2. Kilo, Juliet 5, Juliet, Oscar, Mike, KJ 5, JOM, Bob in North Texas, in and out, thanks. Washington. Whiskey, Julia, 28, Whittaker, WJ3W, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in and out. Please, you'll be right, Eglinton, England, signs here. Okay, putting the brakes on there. A lot of partials, a few doubles. Uh, but, uh, computer problem, one second. VA7FL with the net bulletin. Yes, I'm going to you right in a second, Scott. I'm trying to fix something here. I will be with you just in a second. Uh, I had a lot of first. Oh, yeah, by all means. I love full duplex. Go ahead. Thanks, Chris. I think we're going to have Victor Alpha 7, Cheryl Lima here at Mission Control. And, uh, I just wanted to give a little balloon update. So, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa, the meal, is flying across eastern Canada this morning. He's about to, uh, he created the V1EP, made his first lap of the world here a couple days ago. Congratulations to Emil and his team at the Comox amateur radio club. And our balloon, the VA7NFR, is currently in the, we believe it's in the high Arctic. We mean high Arctic, we mean the high Arctic. It is way north. It is so far north it ain't getting enough sun on the panels. Um, we haven't heard from him for two or three days, which isn't unusual. But, um, we don't expect it. We'll hear from it again until it comes back down, probably over northern Canada. But, uh, it's slow moving air swirling around. In the polar regions, we believe, last time we heard from it, it was very, very northeastern Siberia. So, that's it here from Mission Control. Happy summer. Beautiful, beautiful day here in southwest British Columbia. Gonna be a warm one. Gonna have a barbecue. 73 to all. This is VA7SL here from Mission Control. Thanks, Scott. Boy, that's exciting stuff. Congratulations to you and to Emil for all the success with the balloons. Um, Scott, do you guys ever hook up with school groups? I mean, I have to, I'm trying to remember back to when I was about 12, and I have to think I would have been fascinated by that stuff back then. Well, last summer we, uh, we launched a, um, a balloon with a, uh, school group, uh, a summer school group in, uh, in southern British Columbia. It was very successful. They were very excited, actually. We were playing how kids are in person, you know. We didn't think they were that interested. And then we left, and we heard they were tracking it every day. They had it live on their screen in their classrooms, and, you know, so. No, we've done it, um, it's just, uh, it's funny though with people ballooning. It's just one of those things that's a tough one, because you got, it's very weather dependent, and you can't really predict anything, right? Like, um, during, especially during the school year when the weather's kind of iffy, right? That's the problem with it, but anyway, yeah, we've done it. VA7SL. Awesome. Well, that's great. Uh, thanks for the update, and, uh, of course, thanks for keeping everything running smoothly here at the Canada Hub. You and, uh, Adrian. And let's go to Emil, uh, VE1EP. Uh, anything to add to Scott's, uh, balloon report? No, not really. Uh, really excited that, uh, it's still, uh, still on the go. Um, for anyone that's interested, you could watch the launch actually on YouTube. The one at Copapa. And then for the specific details on the payload and, uh, and all these parameters, uh, you check my QRZ, and it's all in fine detail there. More, there's more there than I can fully understand, but, uh, that's okay. That's all part of the hobby. And, uh, today we're tracking 238, uh, excuse me, 243 balloons, uh, on my QRZ. So, uh, anyone that's interested, uh, you're more than happy to drop me a line, and, uh, we can even get you to adopt a balloon. And that's where you learn all about, uh, the parameters. Back to net control. Thanks for sharing. One Echo, Pop-Pop, Port of Me. Thanks, Emil. Very cool stuff. Uh, and, uh, boy, I'm surprised there are that many balloons. Neat stuff, and that ties in with today's topic, uh, what's the furthest you've reached in this hobby, uh, distance-wise. Okay, in that group of in-and-out check-ins, we had Whiskey, Juliet 3 Whiskey. Thanks for joining us, and I've been to that part of Pennsylvania. That's lovely. Uh, KJ5, J-O-M, thanks for joining us. K6, Victor, Pop-Up, thanks for joining us. VE4, November, Quebec, thanks for joining us today. Victor 4, Juliet, India, Mike, thanks for joining us. Who else did we have? It was just a quick in-and-out. Please go ahead. This is TransCanada. Uh, Victor, Echo 5, Romeo, Juliet, Mike, uh, Victor, Echo 5, Romeo, Juliet, Mike, uh, Roundy, and Kenora. Victor, Echo 5, Romeo, Juliet, Kilo, uh, Victor, Echo 5, Romeo, Juliet, Kilo, Rob, Fort, South, Saskatchewan. Kilo, Alpha, Kilo, Kilo, Alpha, Kilo, Green, Awesome, Queensland, Australia, Victor, Alpha, 4, November, Juliet, Pashant, Victor, Alpha, 4, November, Juliet, Pashant, Nicholas."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-10T11:43:09+00:00","id":15855,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":15854,"text":" Echo, copy, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa, over."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-24T11:32:18+00:00","id":23553,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":23552,"text":" KC5RJL, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa Portable. You've got the frequency there, Lewis. Over."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-24T11:21:05+00:00","id":23520,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":23519,"text":" Victor, echo three, echo whiskey Victor. Victor, echo three, echo whiskey Victor. Victor, echo one, echo papa. Are you by the frequency, over?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8973958194255829,"created_at":"2026-06-28T18:49:29.720268+00:00","id":129053,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":129217,"text":"VE1 Echo Pupa VE1 E-B-V-E-3-I-F-C"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9134428277611732,"created_at":"2026-06-28T18:44:37.059735+00:00","id":129036,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":129198,"text":"VE1 Echo Pupa VE1 E-V-E-V-E-Z-I-F-C"},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":0.7348569164363046,"created_at":"2026-06-28T17:53:28.122098+00:00","id":128888,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":129048,"text":"Victor Echo 1, Victor Echo 1, Echo Papa from Victor Yankee 1, Mike Gels here. Oh, thank you, Emil. Good to hear you. Thanks for sharing. You can do a lot with IRLP and Echo Link. Thanks for sharing about IRLP 9300 in Saskatchewan. That's good to know. And, yeah, Port EMR. It's tough. I find, yeah. You can train the ear to hear, even when it's proper, it seems. It takes a lot of cognitive processing at times to understand DMR. At least Port EMR. I agreed. Thanks again, Emil. You have a good rest of your day, 7-3. We'll break with the E1 EP and go talk to CAM, B-E3-G-V-G. What do you have, the network?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.732794469429387,"created_at":"2026-06-28T17:42:02.405526+00:00","id":128867,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":129022,"text":"E3, J-P-X from VY1MGS. Good to hear you James. Thanks for sharing. Yeah, I haven't done the FT-8 thing for light. Other parts of my life has been demanding other attention, so I've been spending less time on radio. I do like the FT-8 though, so just something about... Yeah, I can pick it up and drop it fairly easily, even when I'm doing other things in the office occasionally. But nothing like having a good chat on the voice. We'll break with V-8, J-P-X. We'll catch you down the log, sir. V-E1 EP for V-1-1MGS. And Mio, how are you today? What do you have for the net? Yeah, very good. Well, my favorite mode has to be the IRLP."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.6490424603223801,"created_at":"2026-06-28T17:37:57.117536+00:00","id":128849,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":128998,"text":"Victor Echo 1, Victor Echo 1 Echo Papa from Victor Yankee 1, Lake Hills here. Thank you, Emil. Good to hear you. Thanks for sharing. You can do a lot with IRLP and Echo Link. Thanks for sharing about IRLP 9300 in Saskatchewan. That's good to know. And, yeah, poor DMR. It's tough. I find, yeah, it's trained the area here. Even when it's proper, it seems. It takes a lot of cognitive processing at times to understand DMR, at least poor DMR. I agreed. Thanks again, Emil. Good rest of your day, 7-3. We'll break with the E1EP and go talk to CAM, B-E3-G-V-G. We have the next one."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-31T10:25:22+00:00","id":28981,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":28980,"text":" There you have it, two stations there. Greetings Emil and Cam. We've got VE1EP and VE3GVG. Emil, how are you doing today? What do you have for the net? Tell me a story about how far you've gone for the amateur radio."}]}