Logging and your logbook

On Home, tap Log QSO. The Standard tab is for everyday logging; Contest is for contest sessions.

• Callsign. As you type, HAMORA finds the DXCC entity from the callsign’s prefix, using data built into the app, and shows the country, distance, bearing, QSOs before and your last contact. Badges tell you if it’s a first QSO with this callsign, a new DXCC entity, or a new band or mode for that entity. Worked before also recognises the same operator under another prefix or suffix, such as JA1ABC/P.
• Frequency and band. Enter the frequency and the band fills in by itself (marked AUTO). You can also choose the band directly.
• Mode. FT8, FT4, SSB, CW and FM are one tap away; More modes has the rest. Modes are stored the ADIF way, so SSB, USB and LSB, and FT4, export correctly.
• Reports. 59 means loud and clear (599 on CW; digital modes use dB).
• Time. The date and time are recorded in UTC, including contacts that cross midnight.
• Station and equipment. New QSOs start from your station’s defaults or a preset: the radio, antenna and power you used.

Tap Save QSO, or Save & next to keep going. Saving never needs a connection.

The Logbook tab holds every QSO, newest first, and stays fast with large logs.

• Search by callsign, country, grid or name.
• Filter by band, mode, date, DXCC entity, station, confirmation, radio or antenna. Filters combine, and they reset when the app restarts.
• Badges: WB (worked before, same callsign) and New DXCC.
• Select several QSOs to export them, delete them, or export them for TQSL.

QSO detail

Tap a QSO for its distance and bearing, a great-circle path diagram, its confirmations, the equipment and station you used, your earlier QSOs with that station, and the space weather when the QSO was logged. Older and imported QSOs show “Propagation data not recorded for this QSO.” because HAMORA never fills in data afterwards.

More→Callsign lookup shows a callsign’s DXCC entity, zones and your history with it, offline. HAMORA uses the AD1C country files, built into the app. A prefix that doesn’t match the country you expect is shown as a warning; HAMORA never treats it as a licence check.

QRZ.com and HamQTH

Add your own login in More→Callsign directories to fill in names and grids while you log. HAMORA keeps only what a logbook needs (name, grid, DXCC, zones and a city-level location) and drops street addresses, e-mail addresses and birth years. Your login is kept in your phone’s secure storage, never in your logbook or HAMORA Cloud.

• Directory data fills only empty fields, labelled with where it came from.
• Your own DXCC choice is never replaced by a lookup.
• Logging never waits for a lookup, and works the same without one.

ADIF import and export are free on every plan, for as long as HAMORA exists.

Export

• More→Export ADIF exports your whole logbook.
• From the Logbook, export what you’ve filtered or selected.
• Operations and contest sessions can be exported on their own.

Fields HAMORA doesn’t use itself, kept from an earlier import, are exported again. Internal ids and sync details never are.

Import

More→Import ADIF reads the file and shows a preview before anything changes, then imports it in one step.

• Each record needs a callsign, a date and time on (UTC, as written in the file), and a band or frequency. Anything else imports with a warning.
• Probable duplicates (same callsign and band, compatible mode, starting within 60 seconds) are skipped, never merged.
• A band that doesn’t match the frequency is kept as imported and reported.
• Imported QSOs keep the station details from the file.

Station profiles describe where and how you operate: home, portable, mobile, SOTA, POTA, WWFF, contest or your own. Each has a callsign (with an optional suffix such as /P), a location, and default equipment.

More→Equipment holds your radios, antennas, amplifiers, tuners and other gear. A preset, such as “Home DX: your HF radio, a beam, 100 W”, fills in the radio, antenna and power in one tap.

• Each QSO records what you used when you logged it.
• Changing equipment or defaults never rewrites earlier QSOs.
• Deleted equipment still shows on old QSOs, marked “(deleted)”.

Changing your callsign or home location

In More→Profile, each change can be made in two ways:

• A new callsign or a new location (you moved): past QSOs keep the callsign or grid they were made with.
• Correct a typo: it’s replaced everywhere. Grids imported from ADIF stay as imported.

On Home, switch to Portable, or open More→Operations, and start an operation: POTA, SOTA, WWFF, a field day or a general portable session.

• References are checked for their shape (for example US-1234 for a POTA park, several separated by commas, G/LD-001 for SOTA, 9MFF-0001 for WWFF). A reference that looks wrong is a warning, never a block.
• Location: GPS, your last known position, coordinates or a grid. Starting never waits for GPS, and HAMORA doesn’t track you continuously.
• QSOs logged during the operation get its reference, location and equipment.
• Progress: POTA shows your QSOs towards 10 in the UTC day; SOTA and WWFF show counts. HAMORA never says an activation is valid: the programs decide.
• The operation survives restarts. End it when you’re done.

ADIF exports carry the references and your grid (MY_POTA_REF, MY_SOTA_REF, MY_WWFF_REF, MY_GRIDSQUARE).

On Home, switch to Contest, or open More→Contests, and set up a session. Contest Companion is a compact logger inside your normal logbook: a companion, not a replacement for desktop contest loggers.

Contests HAMORA knows

CQ WW DX, CQ WPX, ARRL International DX and the IARU HF Championship, each checked against the sponsor’s published rules. Any other contest runs as a Generic session with your bands, modes, exchange, serials and dupe rule: counted and dupe-checked, but never scored or exported as Cabrillo.

• Serials are never reused, even after a delete, and continue after a restart.
• Dupe warnings appear before you save, with Log anyway for a deliberate dupe.
• Your radio (read-only) fills in frequency and mode; your edits win.
• Completed WSJT-X QSOs join a session only when they fit its time, bands and modes. Decodes never become QSOs.
• DX spots appear only for Assisted entries and generic sessions, because contest rules count spots as assistance.
• Review before export lists missing exchanges, dupes, out-of-period QSOs and serial clashes.