What grid square is Colombo?

NJ08 is the live DXRadar reference square for Colombo. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of NJ08 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 NJ08 right now?

NJ08 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 NJ08 Band Conditions — Colombo

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator NJ08. Coordinating at 8.50°, 81.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

NJ08 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

1.33 Kp

Center Coords

8.5, 81.0

Local Phase

Daylight

Grayline window

Sunrise 00:26 UTC

Sunset 12:33 UTC from NJ08

From Colombo, work the 00:26 UTC and 12:33 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses NJ08.

Best band now

10m

10m is the first place to check for long-haul openings from this region, with 15m close behind.

Closest operating hub

Colombo

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

Latitude zone: tropical
Local phase: Daylight
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 00:26 UTC / 12:33 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Colombo

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for NJ08, then compare the global live ranking oncurrent ham band conditionsbefore changing bands.

10m

EXCELLENT

15m

EXCELLENT

20m

GOOD

40m

POOR

80m

POOR

● Best DX Windows from NJ08 — Colombo

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from NJ08 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
East Asia / Japan	4,041 mi	53°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	4,392 mi	235°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Europe	4,928 mi	320°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Oceania	5,287 mi	124°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
North America	9,154 mi	359°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	9,632 mi	257°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for NJ08

A planning heuristic for the local day at NJ08, built from sunrise 00:26 UTC, sunset 12:33 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 1.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 00:26 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 00:26 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 12:33 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 12:33 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching NJ08 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in NJ08, NJ09, NJ07, NJ18, MJ98. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate NJ08 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 NJ08, start with 10m EXCELLENT, 15m EXCELLENT, 20m GOOD and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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