Reserve a callsign¶
Claim your callsign on the instance. It's the identifier the roster shows, and it gates self-check-in and net ownership.
Prerequisites¶
Steps¶
Step 1: Open your profile¶
Go to Profile.
Step 2: Enter your callsign¶
Enter your callsign and save.
NetRoll validates international callsign formats and accepts portable suffixes — /P and /M
are normalized. A malformed callsign is rejected with a message saying what's wrong.
A callsign already held by another account is rejected as non-unique.
Step 3: Fill in the rest of your profile¶
While you're here, set your display name, location, and Maidenhead grid. An invalid grid string is rejected with a specific message.
Your avatar defaults to Gravatar derived from your account email. Upload one to override it.
Verify¶
Open a live net and choose Check in. The action is available rather than routing you to callsign setup.
Changing your callsign¶
Enter a new valid, unused callsign. NetRoll reserves the new value and frees the old one for reuse, both inside one transaction — the uniqueness rule always holds, and there's no window where you hold neither.
What a reserved callsign is and isn't¶
Self-asserted. NetRoll stores your callsign as an unverified display identifier. It does not check license records. Reserving a callsign proves you got there first on this instance, nothing more.
Not required to watch or favorite. Browsing, filtering, favoriting, and viewing live sessions all work without one. Self-check-in and net ownership are the two things gated on holding one.
Why your profile beats a callbook. When staff log a check-in for you, your NetRoll profile values override anything the callbook lookup returns. Keeping your profile current is how you control how you appear in other people's logs.