What grid square is the LR03 operating area?

LR03 is the live DXRadar reference square for the LR03 operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of LR03 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 LR03 right now?

LR03 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 LR03 Band Conditions

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator LR03. Coordinating at 83.50°, 41.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

LR03 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

83.5, 41.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 02:25 UTC

Sunset 15:54 UTC from LR03

From the LR03 operating area, work the 02:25 UTC and 15:54 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses LR03.

Best band now

10m

Night operation should keep 20m on watch and move to 40m as the path darkens.

Closest operating hub

the LR03 operating area

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: high-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: watch during geomagnetic storms
Grayline: 02:25 UTC / 15:54 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: the LR03 operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for LR03, 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 LR03 — the LR03 operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from LR03 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
Europe	2,388 mi	216°	40m, 80m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	3,804 mi	78°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
North America	3,871 mi	322°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	4,344 mi	141°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	7,318 mi	277°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	7,580 mi	194°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	8,424 mi	75°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for LR03

A planning heuristic for the local day at LR03, built from sunrise 02:25 UTC, sunset 15:54 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 02:25 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 02:25 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 15:54 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 15:54 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching LR03 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in LR03, LR04, LR02, LR13, KR93. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate LR03 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 LR03, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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