Questions people actually ask.

Yes, for operators and for clubs, with no paid tier and none planned. There is no advertising and no tracking, and nothing is sold. The whole platform runs on one small server and public data; if it ever needs money it comes from grants or voluntary support, never from the people using it.

Pinchas, N2PYZ. It is not a company and there is nothing to buy. The design decisions, down to why each one was taken, are written up in the wiki.

No. Looking things up, reading Learn and following First Contact need nothing at all. A verified callsign is needed to start a club, claim a repeater or do anything that touches a transmitter — and verification is checked against the FCC or ISED record, or an LoTW-signed challenge.

Nothing here keys a transmitter without a verified licensee as the control operator, and nothing sends obscured meaning over amateur RF. That is Part 97, not a preference. Location and presence are opt-in every time, and presence is one four-character grid square for 24 hours, never a track.

An account is an email address or a passkey, the callsigns you have claimed, and what you chose to share. Verification evidence is deleted once a reviewer has decided. There are no postal addresses and no phone numbers anywhere, and the licence mirror carries no addresses either. Every table and how long its rows live is on the retention policy, and you can delete your account yourself.

Add it to your home screen and it opens full screen. A connection is needed to load pages and current information. Notifications are available where configured and supported. No store account is needed.

Your callsign, verified once, used as an identity anywhere that accepts it — Wavelog first. It is standard OpenID Connect from id.qsoapp.com, so any site can take it without asking us for anything.

The FCC and ISED public files, refreshed nightly, plus AllStarLink for nodes, POTA for parks and RadioID for DMR IDs. Repeater records are contributed by verified operators, because RepeaterBook's data is non-commercial only and we do not ingest it.

Export your members and drop the CSV in — any file with a callsign column works, and only callsigns and names are kept. Everyone on that list is approved the moment they sign in with that callsign, and their licence class, status and expiry fill in from the public record. What a club gets lists the rest.

Yes. Roster, check-ins, dues, attendance, treasury and every report download as CSV whenever you want them, with no export fee and no asking us first.

Members see the roster; officers see the detail. Any member can hide their details from other members, and officers still see them. Nothing about a club's membership is public unless the club publishes it — the public side is the club's page, its nets and the posts it marks public.

Not today. No payment processor is set up, because nothing is sold here and a processor takes a fee per payment; officers record what has been paid and the receipts, reminders and books follow from that. If a club needs card payments, say so and it gets looked at again.

Yes — the platform is AGPL, the SDKs and MCP clients Apache-2.0, and the content CC BY-SA. Running your own copy is a supported outcome, not a loophole.

Write to cq@qsoapp.com — see contact for what to include. Bugs get fixed in the open and the change log says what changed. A feature is better on the requests board, where other people can vote for it and you can see where it stands.

73 means “best regards”, and it is American: it comes from the 1859 Western Union “92 Code”, a numbered shorthand US telegraph operators used to keep messages short, and American hams carried it onto the air. de means “from” — it is Latin, standardised worldwide by the ITU for radiotelegraph call-ups, and every US operator who has ever called CQ has sent it: CQ CQ CQ de N2PYZ. So “73 de N2PYZ” reads “best regards from N2PYZ”. If you are new, that habit of writing the way you would send it is most of the culture in two words.