What grid square is the QE50 operating area?

QE50 is the live DXRadar reference square for the QE50 operating area. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of QE50 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 QE50 right now?

QE50 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 QE50 Band Conditions

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator QE50. Coordinating at -49.50°, 151.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

QE50 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 105.

Regional Radar

SFI

105

K-Index

0.33 Kp

Center Coords

-49.5, 151.0

Local Phase

Night

Grayline window

Sunrise 19:47 UTC

Sunset 07:52 UTC from QE50

From the QE50 operating area, work the 19:47 UTC and 07:52 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses QE50.

Best band now

10m

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

Closest operating hub

the QE50 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: upper mid-latitude
Local phase: Darkness
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 19:47 UTC / 07:52 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: the QE50 operating area

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for QE50, 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 QE50 — the QE50 operating area

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from QE50 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
Oceania	1,348 mi	357°	40m, 80m, 20m	Open now
East Asia / Japan	5,961 mi	349°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Southern Africa	6,224 mi	227°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	6,650 mi	297°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South America	7,642 mi	150°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
North America	9,069 mi	75°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
Europe	10,715 mi	286°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for QE50

A planning heuristic for the local day at QE50, built from sunrise 19:47 UTC, sunset 07:52 UTC, SFI 105, and Kp 0.33. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 19:47 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 19:47 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 07:52 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 07:52 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching QE50 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in QE50, QE51, QD59, QE60, QE40. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate QE50 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 QE50, start with 10m POOR, 15m POOR, 20m FAIR and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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