{"activity_count":158,"callsign":"VK2DY","confidence":1.0,"first_seen":"2025-07-20T04:37:20+00:00","found":true,"id":2782,"is_net_control":true,"last_seen":"2026-06-29T10:17:02.389763+00:00","ncs_profile":null,"occurrence_count":121,"profile":{"confidence":0.9,"counts":{"ncs":1,"net":0,"open_qso":113,"transcript_contexts":60},"data_freshness":"generated","latest_topic":"Emergency communications and public service activities","most_topic":"Technical discussions and personal experiences","open_vs_net_bias_score":0.8,"personal_summary":"VK2DY is a knowledgeable and engaged operator who enjoys discussing technical aspects of communication systems and sharing personal stories related to ham radio and emergency services.","scores":{"activity":0.9,"civility":0.9,"engagement":0.8,"focus":0.7,"friendly":0.8,"helpful":0.8,"serious":0.7,"technical":0.9},"source":"ai_profile","summary":"VK2DY is an active participant in various amateur radio discussions, often contributing to topics related to technology, emergency communications, and personal experiences. They frequently engage in open QSOs and occasionally participate in nets.","topic_coverage":{"Emergency communications":0.2,"Personal experiences":0.3,"Technical discussions":0.4,"Weather and climate":0.1},"updated_at":"2026-06-28T16:10:38.122078"},"qrz_status":null,"recent_transcripts":[{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-20T17:15:54+00:00","id":8661,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":8660,"text":" your mouth and you gotta speak, you gotta talk, you gotta, you gotta wanna be heard. Uh, there's a setting on Echo Link called Echo Test. Uh, do an echo test and you'll hear yourself. It'll record you and you'll know what you sound like, but uh, we're not making you out. Uh, try that and come back to me. You gotta put some oomph in the trunk. Uh, some on some of these phones and stuff, or pads. I got Victor Kilo 2 Delta Yankee Robert down in Australia, my friend. You're on the log. We got Kilo Bravo 6 Delta Hotel Romeo Mike in Kelso, Washington. I have November 4 Lima Romeo Kilo Wade, Carrollton, Georgia. Um, I have Kilo India 7 India Hotel Uniform Dave in Murray, Utah. I have November Victor 7 Sierra Sierra Kenneth in uh, Valley Springs, uh, in Valley, Indian Springs, Nevada. I'm sorry about that, sorry about that Ken. Um, you're on the log. I have Kilo 16 James Virgin Kevin in Valley Springs, California. And I have Kilo Golf 5 Robert Juliet Paul in Cententone, Texas. And then we have our buddy, um, uh, Sauldron. Uh, one second there. Uh, Delta Uniform 3 Mike Delta Alpha, I believe is correct. Delta Uniform 3 Mike Delta Alpha. Is that a roger?"},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-27T17:11:45+00:00","id":11386,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":11385,"text":" November, we are node 6222, located in Shelton, Washington. Lima, Lima, Charlie. T-Lo, Charlie 5, Lima, Wizardy Yankee. Let's go through who we've got, because we had a whole lot come in, and there was some doubling going on, but we think we got it, but let's make sure. So let's go ahead and start with Mr. Wade, N4LRK, we have you. Mike, KB6DHR got you on the log as well, along with Robert, VK2DY. Dave, I don't know how he pulled you out, but he did hear him, TI7IA2 and KQ4LLC. Miss Kay, we got you on the log, and certainly hope that you join us tomorrow for the YL net. All right, let's go back out there to Echo Link. If I missed you, or you're not on the log yet, and you're out there on Echo Link, and you want to get on the log, make sure you call. Give me your call sign twice. Give it to me slowly. Give it to me phonetically. And of course, give me your name so that we can make sure that we didn't goof it up putting it in the system. All right, Echo Link operators, go ahead and call now. T-Lo, Charlie 5, Lima, Wizardy Yankee. T-Lo, Charlie 5, Lima, Wizardy Yankee. Beep."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-07-19T19:17:32+00:00","id":7779,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":7778,"text":" DY Strawbridge. Yeah, we have no rabies here in Australia, but we do have that bat virus and four people have died from it in the past. This recent death was in Ballina, which is sort of what I consider my hometown. It's in northern New South Wales. Apparently the bat flew up onto the veranda. He was trying to get away from it and it didn't. But when I lived up there, the biggest flying fox area was mango trees. My neighbor had a mango tree and it was solid flying fox. So there's a lot of the flying foxes up there and many of them are infected with this virus. So that's about what I know. VK2DY, back to you."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-16T17:58:10+00:00","id":17292,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":17291,"text":" Yeah, there are some lightship, I'm not exactly sure what a lightship is, but there are some lightship participants. I don't think there are any in Australia, but there are definitely in other parts of the world, VK2DY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.8662303287535906,"created_at":"2026-06-29T03:32:28.719410+00:00","id":129754,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":130000,"text":"Alright, I registered three in there, Casey 8 YFO, my dear friend Andy and Medina. I'll get your name fixed here. I know you don't call by Andrew. I know you go by Andy, a KJ 588 guy and Robert in Australia, VK2, DY. Did I miss anybody or any corrections on the call please call you, be it about. Keato Charlie 3, Quebec, November Delta, KC3, Q&B, Jeannie and North Ridgeville."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.706104345046557,"created_at":"2026-06-29T00:28:47.307805+00:00","id":129320,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":129547,"text":"Alright. We picked up just down in Florida whiskey Bravo for out in the Azula from over on that logo a little few minutes ago. He must have had enough already to do that weekend. But let's get started. Echo link users and Echo link users only cost them two times. That's twice. Once them medically give me a name, give me a location. Let's do it to Echo link users. Net control Victor Kilo 2 developed Yankee. VK2DY. Robert M. Sidney. This is N4LRK November for Lima Romeo Kilo, Wade in Calton, Georgia."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T18:41:18+00:00","id":26790,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26789,"text":" Okay, I got you. I guess that's Jacob it looks like. I got Robert, VK2DY. Robert, glad you made it tonight. We're talking tonight about, well, the suggested topic anyway. As always, you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. The default topic, I guess we could say, is how you got into ham radio. How did you become a ham and why? Over to you, VK2DY and pay for each other."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-30T20:14:29+00:00","id":28577,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":28576,"text":" Yeah, VK2DY, Victor Alpha 3, Victor Whiskey X-Ray. Yeah, QSL on that. The hardware is there, right? All the hardware globally now is basically the same. It was standardized all with 3G, and now with LTE and 5G, etc. It's all basically standardized. So I assume that it's just a case of building the system locally and integrating it. So the hardware is already there to do it. It's just a case of how do you get all the different agencies on board, and how do you draw the polygons and stuff, right? So for us, the system worked in the US fairly seamlessly because they used polygons all the time, right? Here in Canada, we use alert zones, so it varies. Sometimes they'll use polygons, sometimes they'll use regional boundaries. Some of the weather warning boundaries, for example, follow local districts, right? Because it just makes sense. So we have both regions and counties, and in some cases, you'll break a region into 3 or 4 separate areas, right? And that's the way it breaks down on the electoral map. So what they've had to do is they've had to basically take each one of those broken up zones and turn it into its own polygon, and then put it into the alert system, and then the alert system just hits whatever the cell towers are that is within that box. So I imagine for you in Australia, it's just a case of building out the system to the point where you can just hit a button and it'll send out the messages. But all the hardware is already there, right? It's just a case of the software integration for your specific need. Go ahead."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-30T20:12:36+00:00","id":28576,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":28575,"text":" Yes, the VK2DY bank, yes, that's my understanding. The hardware is there, but the little bits and pieces need to be all connected there. We would do by region or by local government area, but very similar to what you're saying. It's there, but it's not quite implemented yet, and that's what's on the table, the VK2DY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-28T18:45:28+00:00","id":26791,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":26790,"text":" Yeah, 84 HM VK 2DY here in Robertson, Midwestern Sydney, where it's currently 18 degrees Celsius, about 66 Fahrenheit. We'll get a couple more degrees than that. The rain has finally left us after about three weeks, a little over three weeks, and the sun is out. It's bright, clear sunny sky. You can feel the warmth of the sun, but we're still holding in the late winter temperatures here. That's going to change pretty quick. Anyway, looking forward to spring and summer and all that comes with it. How did it become him? My father was always into electronics. That was what my father's interest was. He ended up getting into World War II. It shows you how old I am. They assigned him duty as a radio man. He worked as a radio man in Newfoundland. That time was, I guess, a semi-independent country. He helped direct planes back and forth across the Atlantic. He learned Morse code. He learned it very well. I think he'd copy about 60 words a minute. When he got out of the Army, he went into electronics and studied electronics, worked as a broadcast engineer for a radio station. By the time I came around, there was radios and oscilloscopes and electronics all around the house. I grew up with electronics and that kind of thing. My father showed me ham radio, showed me shortwave radio, showed me all these sort of things that were going on on the radio. I, of course, laughed it up. I really enjoyed learning about it. Unfortunately, I never acquired his skill at Morse code. I had to wait for the code requirement to go away before I became a ham. By the time that had come about, I was out of the house. I finished university. I had a couple of close friends who were ham radio enthusiasts as well. I think the day since the Morse code requirement went away, I went with a friend of mine. We went and I took the test and I got my license. Ever since then, I've been licensed in ham radio. I've always been surrounded by people who like electronics and radio. I've always had an interest. I ended up being in IT. I think I've gone all the way over there."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-06T17:59:59+00:00","id":33608,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":33607,"text":" Good morning and thanks, VK2DY and VK2DY, YNQN."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-06T19:10:52+00:00","id":33702,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":33701,"text":" And I have three more coming in, VK3H, VK2DY, and VK2VIO. Any additional stations? Come on in. If we have any comments or questions for Tom, come on in with those as well."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-08-30T20:09:05+00:00","id":28571,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":28570,"text":" This is Victor Keeler to Delta Yankee, Robert in Sydney. At the moment there is no mobile phone alert system. Well, there is. You will get a text from 0444444444, and that is our alert system at the moment. But on the table is something like you guys. We've got government alerts coming through, special systems set up, and I think there is actually a plan for 2026 or 2027 that we will have the alert system on the phones. Whether we will be able to turn it on and off like you guys are able to, I don't know. But as I understand it, it is on the table. VK2DY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T18:42:25+00:00","id":37677,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37676,"text":" My keys straightened out here. I bumped it by mistake. Alright, that'll bring us down to VK2DY, Robert from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T19:04:35+00:00","id":37697,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37696,"text":" Okay, I don't know what's the trade. He's on the list. I saw him pop up on the list, but he's not responding. Alright, well that brings us to the end of the list. We don't have a whole lot of people stuck around, but we'll go through the second time. I'm going to turn it over to N6MOS if he's still there. He's not showing up on the list, so I don't know if he's stuck around or not. K7RON I hope is still going to be there. He's still connected on the debt logger. KI7IHU Dave, this is Ron, we'll pass it on to Dave. Dave can pass it to KI4ZS, another Donald. He can pass it on down to VK2DY and that'll be it. Short list of the time we get for the second round tonight. So, over to Brett, N6MOS from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T19:10:21+00:00","id":37701,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37700,"text":" And I don't see him there anymore so looks like, Robert, you're the last one on the list. We'll come back and check the feed again and see if he shows up or not. But we've told you twice already. So you're the tail wag of the dog, Robert. Over to you, VK2DY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.99,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-11T18:53:44+00:00","id":37686,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":37685,"text":" Okay, good to have you with us tonight, you said, and pretty good tonight. Glad to hear you there. I also recognize we have Robert, VK2DY has joined us. Is there anybody else out there that would like to check in, please call K4H."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-04T18:40:34+00:00","id":32495,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":32494,"text":" It looks like I'm the next one. So thanks Hank, I appreciate that additional information. I think you saw what I wrote in the chat window. So yeah, that may affect the whole point of us coming to meet with other people in the RV radio net. I think we need to figure out first off how many people from the RV radio network are planning on going. So it would be nice if there was something on the website to say, hey are you planning on going or so, so we can get a count. So anyways, that would be a good thing. Anyways, I'll drop that part for now and just say, I hope everybody has a great week. Looking forward to next time and this is November. Thank you for November Charlie over to Robert, VK2DY from NY4MC."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:48:56+00:00","id":41349,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41348,"text":" Yes, K4HM, VK2DY, Robert in North-West in Sydney, where it's currently 25 degrees Celsius, which is about 78 Fahrenheit, something like that. Anyway, it's only 1144, so it's definitely going to get warmer than that yet today. So, definitely spring has sprung here in Sydney. And I note that it is the equal lux in the Southern Hemisphere here, 12 hours of daylight, 12 hours of night. That comes always before the equinox because of the atmosphere, the sun rises and sets a little later. But anyway, that all aside, I used to be involved with a group called Wison. Wison is a division of volunteer services Australia, something like that. And it is part of the whole disaster communications. Everything is coordinated through one body. And that body then has different pieces to it and they all operate out of that. So, Wison used to be affiliated with the WIA, but it joined the volunteer rescue Australia after they sort of centralized everything. So, I used to be a part of that group. It's hard to, they do a lot of physical exercise. And I'm just no longer able to do that. They have a hunt for people in the bush and all sorts of things like that that they spend to do. I'm physically not able to handle that anymore. So, I leave that to younger folks. I used to do that. And I know that they were looking for volunteers. There's some kind of boat race on the Hawkesbury River here. That organization is looking for volunteers. Unfortunately, that weekend I'm busy, but they were looking for volunteers to do that. There aren't a whole lot of opportunities here in Australia to do volunteer. Most of the communications have long been taken over by mobile phones or UHS-CD. And so, the ham radio folks have sort of been squeezed out of the, generally out of the, out of the, out of the emergency services here. So, it's sort of a small organization and not able to provide the services. So, they've looked elsewhere. RVK2DY, back to that."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-18T18:45:23+00:00","id":41348,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":41347,"text":" Okay, that brings us to the bottom of the list. And Eric, glad to have you. You don't need to be an RVer. Excuse me. Like I said, most of us have an interest in RV. Some of them have been RVers. Some of them are one of the RVers. And some of them don't care about the RV at all. They just want to talk. So it's fine. We take anybody we can get on the net here. Let more of them air here. All right, I just see another call just popped up. It looks like Bob, VK2DY. Robert, you're up. Tonight we're talking about emergency communications and public service activities. Do you do any of that? Over to you. VK2DY from K4HM."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":0.9360299408435822,"created_at":"2026-06-28T01:50:33.643179+00:00","id":127689,"node_number":"683210","recording_id":127745,"text":"Victorico 3 is the Victorico 3, 10 and Scarborough. Victor Kilo 2, Delta Yankee, VK2-DY, Robert and Sydney, just checking. And VK3-HJ2, good morning from down under."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":0.9142745062708855,"created_at":"2026-06-28T01:41:06.198254+00:00","id":127649,"node_number":"683211","recording_id":127705,"text":"Victorico 3's of the Victorico 3's, Dennis Kerberald. Victor Kilo 2, Delta Yankee, VK2DY, Robert and Sydney, just checking. And VK3HJ2, good morning from Down Under."},{"callsign_confidence":1.0,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-20T18:16:26+00:00","id":42964,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":42963,"text":" VKR2, Delta Yankee, VK2DY, Robert and Sydney."},{"callsign_confidence":0.98,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-20T18:17:18+00:00","id":42968,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":42967,"text":" And Robert, I've got you there too, VK2DY."},{"callsign_confidence":0.94,"confidence":null,"created_at":"2025-09-21T17:07:01+00:00","id":43901,"node_number":"oldsys","recording_id":43900,"text":" Victor kilo to Delta Yankee vk2 dy Robert and Sydney"}]}