Phone-first amateur radio

Get ready for your first contact.

Sign in with your callsign, see what is on the air around you, and get walked through your first QSO on a handheld. Then bring your club along.

Free to useNo paid tierUS and Canada licencesNo ads, no tracking

qsoapp.com/near

Near you · Brooklyn

146.730 · KC2RCTry this one
449.225 · W2ABCNeeds height
Node 51234 · ManhattanOnline · 3 connected

Terrain checked between where you stand and the site.

What is on the air near you, with a plain answer per site: worth trying from a handheld, or not.

01 · Just licensed

Pick your radio, find a repeater you can reach, make the call, log it.

Step by step, from setting up your radio to making the call.

First Contact

02 · Running a club

Open a net from your phone, keep the roster and dues, hold the election.

Stop keeping check-ins on paper. Bring the club across in an afternoon.

For clubs

03 · Teaching a class

Eight sessions, ready to teach, and a club to hand your students to.

No radio background needed; a partner club brings the handhelds.

Schools

Not sure yet? Walk the tour, or start from the beginning in Learn if the hobby itself is new.

On the air tonight

Every club net open right now, with its frequency. Tap one and you are in the room: hear the check-ins, add yours from the phone, read the summary when net control closes.

All nets on the air

No club net is on the air right now. When one opens it is listed here with its frequency and who is running it.

kc2rc.clubs.qsoapp.com

Members · 84 active

N2PYZGeneral · paid to 2027-01
KB1QRPTechnician · paid to 2026-11
W1AWLicence expires in 40 days
(private)Hidden from other members

Who lapses this quarter · 3 · Import a CSV · Print name tags

The roster carries each member's licence class, status and expiry, refreshed from the FCC and ISED files every night.

The roster keeps itself current

Licence dates come from the public record, dues from the treasurer’s book, and the club gets its own address on its callsign. Everything an officer used to keep in a spreadsheet, on the phone.

What the club software does

Demo club

Look inside a club before you start one

Walk into a club that does not exist and press every button: run a net, take dues, open an election, print the reports. No sign-up, no email.

Keep the tools you already use

Your log stays in Wavelog, your exam prep in HamStudy, your Winlink in Pat, and your radio gets a CHIRP file. Callsigns come from the FCC and ISED records, nodes from AllStarLink, parks from POTA, DMR IDs from RadioID — so what you see here matches what you would look up yourself.

FCC ULSISED CanadaLoTWAllStarLinkPOTARadioIDWavelogCHIRPHamStudyPat

It costs nothing

No paid tier, no ads, nothing sold. If you want to know why that holds, the FAQ answers it, contact reaches the person who builds it.

Requests

Missing something your club needs?

Post it on the board and vote for what other operators asked for. Most of what is here started as somebody saying what their club actually does.