What grid square is the AO44 operating area?

AO44 is the live DXRadar reference square for the AO44 operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of AO44 for planning propagation.

How do I find my grid square?

Use a Maidenhead grid lookup from your GPS coordinates or street address, then compare that grid with the nearby squares linked on this page. A 4-character grid is enough for most HF planning.

What bands are open in AO44 right now?

AO44 is currently rated POOR. The best bands right now are 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m, with 10m as the main band to watch first.

Grid AO44 Band Conditions

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator AO44. Coordinating at 54.50°, -171.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

AO44 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

54.5, -171.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 17:11 UTC

Sunset 05:24 UTC from AO44

From the AO44 operating area, work the 17:11 UTC and 05:24 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses AO44.

Best band now

10m

Night operation should keep 20m on watch and move to 40m as the path darkens.

Closest operating hub

the AO44 operating area

This square sits in a mixed-region footprint and is best used as a planning center for portable, field-day, and home-station band decisions.

Latitude zone: upper mid-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 17:11 UTC / 05:24 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: the AO44 operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for AO44, then compare the global live ranking oncurrent ham band conditionsbefore changing bands.

10m

POOR

15m

POOR

20m

FAIR

40m

EXCELLENT

80m

EXCELLENT

● Best DX Windows from AO44 — the AO44 operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from AO44 to each DX region at SFI 105 / Kp 0.33, and a current verdict. "Open now" means a suitable band is scoring well on that path; "Try ~HH:MM" points at the next far-end grayline. Band picks and status are a planning heuristic, not a measurement.

Target	Distance	Beam	Bands to try	Status
East Asia / Japan	2,713 mi	263°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
North America	3,447 mi	76°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Europe	5,216 mi	359°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South Asia	5,774 mi	299°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	6,283 mi	213°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	7,978 mi	80°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	10,286 mi	329°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for AO44

A planning heuristic for the local day at AO44, built from sunrise 17:11 UTC, sunset 05:24 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 17:11 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

Grayline enhancement — low bands reach long distances as the terminator passes.

Morning

after 17:11 UTC

20m · 15m

Modest SFI — 20m is the daytime workhorse here.

Midday

local noon

15m · 20m

20m and 15m carry the daytime load at this SFI.

Dusk grayline

around 05:24 UTC

20m · 40m

Second grayline peak — 20m holds, then hands off to 40m.

Night

after 05:24 UTC

40m · 80m

Low bands own the darkness — 40m for DX, 80m regional.

Recent local activity

Spots touching AO44 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in AO44, AO45, AO43, AO54, AO34. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate AO44 footprint right now. That usually means you should widen the search to the nearest regional hubs below or fall back to 20m/40m for the next operating window.

Top DX targets

Where this grid is reaching right now

No outbound targets were strong enough to rank from the current cache. Check back after the next PSKReporter refresh or switch to the regional grids below.

Contest preview

Next major contest outlook

No contest event is currently loaded. For planning from AO44, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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