What grid square is Eastern Europe operating area?

KN74 is the live DXRadar reference square for Eastern Europe operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of KN74 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 KN74 right now?

KN74 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 KN74 Band Conditions — Eastern Europe

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator KN74. Coordinating at 44.50°, 35.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

KN74 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 104.

Regional Radar

SFI

104

K-Index

0 Kp

Center Coords

44.5, 35.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 03:27 UTC

Sunset 15:40 UTC from KN74

From Eastern Europe operating area, work the 03:27 UTC and 15:40 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses KN74.

Best band now

10m

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

Closest operating hub

Eastern Europe operating area

This square sits in Eastern 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: 03:27 UTC / 15:40 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Eastern Europe operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for KN74, 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 KN74 — Eastern Europe operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from KN74 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
Europe	1,226 mi	297°	40m, 80m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	2,884 mi	108°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	4,904 mi	189°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	5,086 mi	55°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
North America	5,969 mi	325°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	7,086 mi	261°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	8,823 mi	97°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for KN74

A planning heuristic for the local day at KN74, built from sunrise 03:27 UTC, sunset 15:40 UTC, SFI 104, and Kp 0. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 03:27 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 03:27 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 15:40 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 15:40 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching KN74 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in KN74, KN75, KN73, KN84, KN64. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate KN74 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 KN74, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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