What grid square is Canada operating area?

DP65 is the live DXRadar reference square for Canada operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of DP65 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 DP65 right now?

DP65 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 DP65 Band Conditions — Canada

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator DP65. Coordinating at 65.50°, -107.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

DP65 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

65.5, -107.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 12:51 UTC

Sunset 01:12 UTC from DP65

From Canada operating area, work the 12:51 UTC and 01:12 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses DP65.

Best band now

10m

After sunset, 20m transitions and 40m becomes the reliable DX fallback from this part of North America.

Closest operating hub

Canada operating area

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

Latitude zone: high-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: watch during geomagnetic storms
Grayline: 12:51 UTC / 01:12 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Canada operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for DP65, 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 DP65 — Canada operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from DP65 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	1,866 mi	164°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Europe	3,788 mi	44°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	4,619 mi	307°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	6,110 mi	133°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	6,385 mi	355°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	8,457 mi	268°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	9,036 mi	60°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for DP65

A planning heuristic for the local day at DP65, built from sunrise 12:51 UTC, sunset 01:12 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 12:51 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 12:51 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 01:12 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 01:12 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching DP65 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in DP65, DP66, DP64, DP75, DP55. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate DP65 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 DP65, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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