What grid square is Barcelona?

JN01 is the live DXRadar reference square for Barcelona. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of JN01 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 JN01 right now?

JN01 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 JN01 Band Conditions — Barcelona

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator JN01. Coordinating at 41.50°, 1.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

JN01 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

1.33 Kp

Center Coords

41.5, 1.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 05:44 UTC

Sunset 17:55 UTC from JN01

From Barcelona, work the 05:44 UTC and 17:55 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses JN01.

Best band now

10m

European evening operation usually shifts toward 20m and 40m once the high bands soften.

Closest operating hub

Barcelona

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

Latitude zone: mid-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 05:44 UTC / 17:55 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Barcelona

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for JN01, 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 JN01 — Barcelona

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from JN01 to each DX region at SFI 105 / Kp 1.33, 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
South Asia	4,570 mi	81°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
North America	4,904 mi	306°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	4,931 mi	156°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	5,417 mi	238°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	6,431 mi	34°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	10,539 mi	75°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for JN01

A planning heuristic for the local day at JN01, built from sunrise 05:44 UTC, sunset 17:55 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 1.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 05:44 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 05:44 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 17:55 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 17:55 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching JN01 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in JN01, JN02, JN00, JN11, IN91. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate JN01 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 JN01, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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