Apps / Band-opening forecaster
What’s open right now?
Live reception reports from stations around the world show which bands are actually getting through from your grid square. Space weather and daylight give a rule-of-thumb outlook for the next few hours. Updates every five minutes.
Space weather
Band by band
| Band | Live, last 15 min | Outlook: now, then each hour | Heard from here | Heard here | Farthest | Reaching |
|---|
good
fair
poor
closed
Outlook is a rule of thumb from solar flux, geomagnetic activity and daylight at your location.
Live counts are what is actually getting through; zero means nobody reported it, not that the band is shut.
Where signals are going
Lines run from your grid square to stations that heard it or were heard there in the last 15 minutes. The shaded half of the world is in darkness right now.