What grid square is Guadalajara?

DL80 is the live DXRadar reference square for Guadalajara. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of DL80 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 DL80 right now?

DL80 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 DL80 Band Conditions — Guadalajara

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator DL80. Coordinating at 20.50°, -103.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

DL80 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 104.

Regional Radar

SFI

104

K-Index

0 Kp

Center Coords

20.5, -103.0

Local Phase

Daylight

Grayline window

Sunrise 12:41 UTC

Sunset 00:50 UTC from DL80

From Guadalajara, work the 12:41 UTC and 00:50 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses DL80.

Best band now

10m

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

Closest operating hub

Guadalajara

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: tropical
Local phase: Daylight
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 12:41 UTC / 00:50 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Guadalajara

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for DL80, 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 DL80 — Guadalajara

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from DL80 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	1,312 mi	12°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South America	3,917 mi	125°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Europe	6,088 mi	36°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	6,861 mi	314°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Oceania	7,901 mi	245°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	9,197 mi	107°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South Asia	9,500 mi	359°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for DL80

A planning heuristic for the local day at DL80, built from sunrise 12:41 UTC, sunset 00:50 UTC, SFI 104, and Kp 0. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 12:41 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 12:41 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 00:50 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 00:50 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching DL80 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in DL80, DL81, DK89, DL90, DL70. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate DL80 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 DL80, start with 10m EXCELLENT, 15m EXCELLENT, 20m GOOD and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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