chore: release v0.23.2
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# QRZ.com XML API — what a free account returns, and what a subscription adds
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Captured 2026-08-02 on F4BPO's two accounts, same callsign looked up twice
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within a minute. Kept because the difference is the answer to a question that
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comes back regularly: *"someone told me their logger gets the 6-character
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locator from QRZ without paying"*. It does not.
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## Free account — `SubExp: non-subscriber`
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```xml
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<Callsign>
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<call>F4BPO</call>
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<fname>Gregory</fname>
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<name>Salaun</name>
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<addr2>Veigy-Foncenex</addr2>
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<country>France</country>
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</Callsign>
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<Session>
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<SubExp>non-subscriber</SubExp>
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<Message>A subscription is required to access the complete record.</Message>
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</Session>
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```
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**Five fields.** No `grid`, no `lat`/`lon`, no `dxcc`, no zones, no email, no
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street, no image.
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## Subscriber — `SubExp: Sat Jul 3 21:45:38 2027`
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```xml
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<Callsign>
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<call>F4BPO</call> <dxcc>227</dxcc> <nickname>Greg</nickname>
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<fname>Gregory</fname> <name>Salaun</name>
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<addr2>Veigy-Foncenex</addr2><zip>74140</zip> <country>France</country>
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<lat>46.103333</lat> <lon>6.290000</lon> <grid>JN36dc</grid>
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<ccode>97</ccode> <land>France</land> <class>2</class>
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<codes>E</codes> <qslmgr>Lotw, Buro, Direct</qslmgr>
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<email>…</email> <u_views>56966</u_views>
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<bio>4414</bio> <biodate>2026-07-08 15:30:58</biodate>
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<image>https://cdn-xml.qrz.com/o/f4bpo/F4BPO_Greg_png.jpg</image>
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<imageinfo>800:1200:221041</imageinfo>
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<moddate>2025-08-24 19:55:31</moddate>
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<eqsl>0</eqsl> <mqsl>1</mqsl> <lotw>1</lotw>
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<cqzone>14</cqzone> <ituzone>27</ituzone>
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<geoloc>user</geoloc> <name_fmt>Gregory "Greg" Salaun</name_fmt>
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<serial>1000134</serial>
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</Callsign>
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```
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## Consequences
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- **A free QRZ account can never fill the locator, the coordinates, the zones
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or the e-mail.** If someone reports a logger doing it on a free account, they
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are either using HamQTH (free, returns a 6-character `grid`) or they hold an
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XML subscription without realising it — the QRZ.com account and the "XML
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Logbook Data" subscription are sold separately. `SubExp` in the session block
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settles it in one request.
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- **Profile edits take a few minutes to reach the XML feed.** Changing the grid
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on the website and looking the callsign up immediately returns the OLD value,
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which looks exactly like a stale cache. Re-test after a few minutes before
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suspecting the logger. (This cost an hour on 2026-08-02.)
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## Fields OpsLog does not use yet
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`qrz.go` maps call, name, addr1/2, zip, state, county, country, grid, lat, lon,
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dxcc, cqzone, ituzone, cont, email, qslmgr and image. Left on the table:
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- **`geoloc`** — `user` when the operator entered the position by hand, versus a
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geocoded value derived from the postal address. This is a direct statement of
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how much the coordinates and the locator can be trusted, and it is exactly
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the question the grid-precision rule in App.tsx tries to answer by comparing
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string lengths. Worth wiring if the locator ever misbehaves again.
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- **`eqsl` / `mqsl` / `lotw`** — the station's QSL preferences as flags, more
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reliable than parsing the free-text `qslmgr`.
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- `nickname` / `name_fmt`, `class`, `moddate`, `bio`.
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