Reporting a Silent Key
TCA Submission Guidelines
The Canadian Amateur (TCA) magazine regularly features a listing of Silent Keys as a way to honour our departed Radio Amateurs. Silent Key notifications are accepted from family members, friends or other Amateurs.
Radio Amateurs of Canada would like to express our deepest condolences for your loss. We understand that this is a difficult time and hope to make reporting a Silent Key a simple process. Due to editorial guidelines and printing timelines, please allow 4-5 months for the listing to appear in the TCA Silent Keys column.
Silent Key reports must be confirmed by one of the following means:
- a copy of an obituary notice (must include date of death)
- a copy of the death certificate
- a letter from the family lawyer or the executor
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact the Silent Key Administrator: or by telephone at 613-244-4367 or 877-273-8304 from 10 am to 4 pm EST/EDT, Monday through Friday (except statutory holidays).
Radio Amateurs of/du Canada
720 Belfast Road
Suite 217
Ottawa, ON
K1G 0Z5
Please also send the information to the Amateur Radio Service Centre so that the call sign can be re-assigned
Carl Everson Memorial Silent Keys List
Updated January 15, 2025
The following Memorial Silent Keys List is presented in memory of Carl Everson, VE3BYX, who started compiling these listings on behalf of Radio Amateurs of Canada.
Carl was a tireless volunteer and a former member of the Ottawa Amateur Radio Club and was the Editor of its newsletter “The Groundwave“. Sadly, Carl became a Silent Key on March 3, 2000 after a long bout with cancer. He is sadly missed.
The list of Silent Keys provided below is a compilation of previously published listings that have appeared in The Canadian Amateur, Radioamateur du Quebec, QST and QST Canada magazines and are known to be incomplete – especially for Radio Amateurs who died during World War II.
The lists below are in zipped, comma delimited text format that can be readily opened by most word processors and database programs such as MS Word, Access and Excel.
A list of recent Silent Keys is compiled by RAC volunteers and is then first published in The Canadian Amateur magazine. We then wait a month to see if we receive any corrections before adding them to the Aggregate Silent Key list provided below. Please check the most recent issue of The Canadian Amateur for the latest information.
Silent Keys by Call Sign
The following list is of Silent Keys as of January 15, 2025:
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Note: Although sorted in call sign order, call signs may appear in other fields. Therefore it is best to search (ctrl+F) for call sign or other desired information. This database still contains unresolved discrepancies and duplications. An * indicates a call sign that was reissued at the time of listing.
Please send any corrections and omissions for these listings to .