What grid square is Sydney?

QF46 is the live DXRadar reference square for Sydney. The exact portable or home QTH may vary within the square, but this page tracks the center of QF46 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 QF46 right now?

QF46 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 QF46 Band Conditions — Sydney

Localized HF conditions for Maidenhead locator QF46. Coordinating at -33.50°, 149.00°. Updated with real-time telemetry from NOAA and DX cluster reports.

QF46 conditions are POOR. Best bands: 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, 60m. SFI: 104.

Regional Radar

SFI

104

K-Index

0 Kp

Center Coords

-33.5, 149.0

Local Phase

Daylight

Grayline window

Sunrise 19:55 UTC

Sunset 08:00 UTC from QF46

From Sydney, work the 19:55 UTC and 08:00 UTC grayline windows: probe 20m, 30m, and 40m in the 15 minutes either side while the terminator crosses QF46.

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

Sydney

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

Latitude zone: mid-latitude
Local phase: Daylight
Aurora exposure: low at this latitude
Grayline: 19:55 UTC / 08:00 UTC
Best high band: 10m
Nearest city: Sydney

● Local Band Quality Scorings

Use this local score for QF46, 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 QF46 — Sydney

Great-circle distance, short-path beam heading, the bands most likely open right now from QF46 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
East Asia / Japan	4,854 mi	351°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
South Asia	6,040 mi	299°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Southern Africa	6,880 mi	230°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now
South America	8,643 mi	148°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
North America	8,769 mi	63°	10m, 15m, 20m	Open now
Europe	10,076 mi	311°	40m, 20m, 80m	Open now

● Band-by-Time Plan for QF46

A planning heuristic for the local day at QF46, built from sunrise 19:55 UTC, sunset 08:00 UTC, SFI 104, and Kp 0. Not a measurement — a starting point for where to listen as the day turns.

Dawn grayline

around 19:55 UTC

40m · 30m · 20m

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

Morning

after 19:55 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 08:00 UTC

20m · 40m

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

Night

after 08:00 UTC

40m · 80m

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

Recent local activity

Spots touching QF46 and the adjacent squares

These are the newest 10m, 15m, and 20m reports where one side of the path sits in QF46, QF47, QF45, QF56, QF36. This gives the page unique, local context instead of a generic solar snapshot.

No fresh PSKReporter paths are cached for the immediate QF46 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 QF46, start with 10m EXCELLENT, 15m EXCELLENT, 20m GOOD and keep 20m available as the safest all-around fallback.

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