What grid square is Anchorage?

BP51 is the live DXRadar reference square for Anchorage. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of BP51 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 BP51 right now?

BP51 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 BP51 Band Conditions — Anchorage

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator BP51. Coordinating at 61.50°, -149.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

BP51 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 104.

Regional Radar

SFI

104

K-Index

0 Kp

Center Coords

61.5, -149.0

Local Phase

Daylight

Grayline window

Sunrise 15:38 UTC

Sunset 04:01 UTC from BP51

From Anchorage, work the 15:38 UTC and 04:01 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses BP51.

Best band now

10m

10m is the headline band right now, with 20m as the dependable fallback if conditions soften.

Closest operating hub

Anchorage

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: high-latitude
Local phase: Daylight
Aurora exposure: watch during geomagnetic storms
Grayline: 15:38 UTC / 04:01 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Anchorage

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for BP51, then compare the global live ranking oncurrent ham band conditionsbefore changing bands.

10m

EXCELLENT

15m

EXCELLENT

20m

GOOD

40m

POOR

80m

POOR

● Best DX Windows from BP51 — Anchorage

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from BP51 to each DX region at SFI 104 / Kp 0, 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
North America	2,636 mi	102°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	3,523 mi	275°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Europe	4,646 mi	14°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South Asia	6,110 mi	317°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South America	7,160 mi	96°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Oceania	7,174 mi	231°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	9,973 mi	8°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for BP51

A planning heuristic for the local day at BP51, built from sunrise 15:38 UTC, sunset 04:01 UTC, SFI 104, and Kp 0. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 15:38 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 15:38 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 04:01 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 04:01 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching BP51 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in BP51, BP52, BP50, BP61, BP41. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate BP51 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 BP51, start with 10m EXCELLENT, 15m EXCELLENT, 20m GOOD and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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