What grid square is the CQ26 operating area?

CQ26 is the live DXRadar reference square for the CQ26 operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of CQ26 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 CQ26 right now?

CQ26 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 CQ26 Band Conditions

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator CQ26. Coordinating at 76.50°, -135.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

CQ26 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

76.5, -135.0

Local Phase

Daylight

Grayline window

Sunrise 14:35 UTC

Sunset 03:12 UTC from CQ26

From the CQ26 operating area, work the 14:35 UTC and 03:12 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses CQ26.

Best band now

10m

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

Closest operating hub

the CQ26 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: high-latitude
Local phase: Daylight
Aurora exposure: watch during geomagnetic storms
Grayline: 14:35 UTC / 03:12 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: the CQ26 operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for CQ26, 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 CQ26 — the CQ26 operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from CQ26 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
North America	2,820 mi	134°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Europe	3,561 mi	28°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	3,762 mi	277°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South Asia	5,491 mi	329°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	7,019 mi	106°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Oceania	7,995 mi	248°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	8,889 mi	22°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for CQ26

A planning heuristic for the local day at CQ26, built from sunrise 14:35 UTC, sunset 03:12 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 14:35 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 14:35 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 03:12 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 03:12 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching CQ26 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in CQ26, CQ27, CQ25, CQ36, CQ16. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate CQ26 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 CQ26, start with 10m EXCELLENT, 15m EXCELLENT, 20m GOOD and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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