# kQSO — Hamradio log with smart input

> Hamradio log with smart input (iPhone/iPad app by MEDORO s.r.o..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kqso/id6820009297 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [MEDORO s.r.o.](https://appshunter.io/developer/1092575286)
- Category: Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 6 MB
- Languages: American English, Czech
- Released: 2026-10-28
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is kQSO?

kQSO is a ham radio logger with a single, smart input line. Type a whole QSO on one line — callsign, band and mode, report, serial, locator, award reference — and kQSO recognizes each part by its shape. A preview under the line shows what will be saved. Logs are plain ADIF files on your device; everything works offline.

Log profiles
• Activation — SOTA, GMA, POTA, WWFF, TOTA lookout towers, BOTA bunkers; your reference is set with the log, the other station's reference is logged for S2S. Several references in one activation (summit + park + WWFF area), exported as one ADIF per program.
• General — adds the name.
• VHF contest — serials, 6-character locator, IARU R1 scoring (points per km), score per band, EDI (REG1TEST) export per band with categories, statistics per hour and per large square, and the ON4KST chat for skeds (stations with distance, bearing and QRV bands).
• Satellite — one log per pass; the satellite sets uplink / downlink band and frequency.

Logging
• Bands 160 m to 76 GHz, microwaves typed in GHz (24G, 10G …).
• Your locator from the device position, and the nearest SOTA, POTA, WWFF, GMA, TOTA and BOTA references offline.
• Callsign suggestions and locator prefill from a bundled database and your own worked stations; in a VHF contest the bands the station is QRV on.
• Dupe warning (call + band + mode; contest per band; satellite per bird).
• Contest panel in landscape: the next serial in big digits, UTC, rate and points.
• QSO map of worked locators over the Maidenhead grid, offline.
• Rain radar on the VHF contest map (optional, off by default).
• ADIF export, push to your own Wavelog (API v2).
• Crash-safe: every QSO is written at once, an unfinished one is offered back after a restart.

Radios and keyers (beta)
• Icom IC-705 over Bluetooth: band, mode and exact frequency from the radio, a typed band or F28300 tunes it, CW macros through the radio's keyer, voice memories T1–T4 in SSB / FM, transverters per band.
• Other Icom radios (IC-7300, 9700, 7610, 7100, 706, 910) through the keyer's CI-V port.
• CW keyer M5-ESP32-keyer over Bluetooth: macros per profile, RUN / S&P, N1MM-style ESM, CW keyboard.

Own alphabetical keyboard, the system keyboard or a hardware keyboard with shortcuts (F-key macros, Alt+…), standard and e-ink display modes, light and dark theme, English and Czech, a built-in manual.

No ads, no tracking, no account. Free software under GPL-3.0.

## Is kQSO safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess kQSO.

## Is kQSO legit?

kQSO appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for kQSO is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.17.0 — 2026-11-01

• CW decoder in the app: it listens through the microphone next to the radio's speaker (or a USB audio input) and decodes on the device. Settings > CW decoder.
• ON4KST chat: stations up to a distance you set, a message to a station right in its details, and the station's chat locator offered in the log.
• Scatter and aurora reports: 59S, 59A.
• The log header on a narrow phone wraps instead of being cut off.

### 1.16.0 — 2026-10-28

• ON4KST chat in VHF contest logs: stations with distance, bearing and QRV bands, sked requests, Mute and Report. Try it with the call DEMO.
• Your locator from the device position and the nearest SOTA, POTA, WWFF, GMA, TOTA and BOTA references, offline.
• Several references in one activation, one ADIF per program; BOTA bunkers.
• VHF contests: categories and EDI files, 6-hour entry, VKV PA and FM pohár, statistics per hour and large square, band filter.
• Contest panel in landscape: next serial in big digits, rate, points, ODX.
• Callsign database from the public contest logs with the bands each station is QRV on.
• Keyboard for logging: kQSO's own, the system one, or a hardware keyboard with shortcuts.
• Swipe from the left edge goes back in the app.
• Built-in manual (English and Czech).

### 1.9 — 2026-10-28

No release notes.

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