What grid square is Eastern Europe operating area?

LO28 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 LO28 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 LO28 right now?

LO28 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 LO28 Band Conditions — Eastern Europe

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator LO28. Coordinating at 58.50°, 45.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

LO28 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

2 Kp

Center Coords

58.5, 45.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 02:45 UTC

Sunset 15:03 UTC from LO28

From Eastern Europe operating area, work the 02:45 UTC and 15:03 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses LO28.

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: upper mid-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: watch during geomagnetic storms
Grayline: 02:45 UTC / 15:03 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Eastern Europe operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for LO28, 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 LO28 — Eastern Europe operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from LO28 to each DX region at SFI 105 / Kp 2, 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	1,508 mi	262°	40m, 80m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	3,004 mi	133°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	4,241 mi	67°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
North America	5,372 mi	331°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	5,940 mi	197°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	7,568 mi	273°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	8,493 mi	95°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for LO28

A planning heuristic for the local day at LO28, built from sunrise 02:45 UTC, sunset 15:03 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 2. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 02:45 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 02:45 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 15:03 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 15:03 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching LO28 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in LO28, LO29, LO27, LO38, LO18. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate LO28 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 LO28, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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