DX cluster in the last hour: 170 spots, busiest bands 20m (70), 40m (18), 10m (12), most spotted mode SSB. Server snapshot, refreshed every 5 minutes. The tool below is live.
Live DX Cluster
Who is on the air right now, on which band, and where the openings are. Every spot from the last 15 minutes, updated live. Search a call or prefix, pin a band, and put the DX you are chasing on your watchlist.
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Busiest bands DXHeat spots, last 15 minutes
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Digital activity PSK Reporter, last 15 minutes
What it does
Streams DX spots from the DXHeat cluster as they arrive and keeps the last 15 minutes: who is on the air, on which band and mode, and who heard them. Busiest bands and DX by continent are counted from the same spots.
Data and refresh
Spots come from the DXHeat live feed with a server-side pre-load, digital activity from PSK Reporter every 15 minutes. Times are UTC. Flags are derived from the callsign prefix, so they are a hint, not a certificate.
How to read it
A band with many spots is open. Filter by band, mode, DX continent or where the spotter is, search a call or prefix, and put the prefixes you chase on the watchlist to be told when they appear.
Who it is for
DXers deciding where to point the beam, contesters looking for multipliers, and beginners who want to see what a normal day on HF looks like before they call CQ.
What it cannot tell you
Every row is somebody else’s report from somewhere else. A spot proves that one operator heard one station at one moment on their aerial, and says nothing about your path. It cannot tell you whether the DX is still there either: a spot is a photograph, not a live feed, and a rare station can be worked and gone inside the fifteen minutes this table covers. Nor does it see the quiet operators, the ones who are on the air and simply never get spotted by anyone.
Using it in practice
Read the Spotted by column as carefully as the DX call. A station spotted from Scotland means something to a UK operator; the same call spotted from Brazil usually does not. Put the prefixes you are chasing on the watchlist and leave the page open rather than scanning every row, and compare the spot table against the digital activity panel: a band that is thick with FT8 reception reports but has almost no spots is open and simply nobody is calling CQ on SSB.
Frequently asked questions
How far back does the table go?
Fifteen minutes, as a rolling window. Rows drop off as they age out, and the count in the panel heading is kept on the same window as the table, so the number above and the rows below always agree.
Where do the spots come from?
Two sources doing two different jobs. The Latest spots table and the band and continent charts come from DXHeat, which carries what human operators have posted by hand. The Digital activity panel is sampled from PSK Reporter, which is fed by automatic decoders and shows what is genuinely being received on FT8, FT4 and the rest, rather than what somebody thought worth spotting.
Why do the digital counts dwarf the spot counts?
Because they count different things over the same fifteen minutes. The table counts what people posted; the digital panel counts reception reports from automatic receivers, which run into the hundreds even on a quiet afternoon. A band can be thick with FT8 and produce almost no spots at all.
Why can I not hear a station that is sitting in the table?
A spot is one operator’s report from their own location, not a statement about your path. A station that is loud in Spain can be inaudible in Scotland at that same moment. The Spotted by column is the quickest way to judge it: if the spotter is roughly where you are, the spot means something for you.
What does the watchlist do?
It keeps the calls and prefixes you are chasing and highlights them the moment they appear, so you can leave the page open instead of reading every row. It is stored in your own browser, so it is still there the next time you open the tool, and there is no account behind it. The Sound button beside it plays a short tone when a watched prefix is spotted, and Pause freezes the feed while you work a station.
Why do the same countries keep appearing in the continent panel?
Because the panel counts spots, and spots follow operators as much as propagation. Europe and North America have the most stations and the most people posting, so they dominate the count even on a night when the openings favour somewhere else. Read it as where the activity is, not as a map of where the band is open.