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Overview
Tune a weather radio to 162.550 MHz to hear WXJ73, the NOAA Weather Radio station serving the Quad Cities area of Illinois. It carries National Weather Service forecasts and warnings 24 hours a day.
Its broadcasts come from the National Weather Service forecast office in Quad Cities, IA. The transmitter itself stands at Rock Island. It transmits with 1,000 watts of power.
WXJ73 covers 9 counties in Illinois and Iowa, each listed below with its SAME code. A weather radio with SAME (Specific Area Message Encoding) only sounds an alert for the areas you program, so enter the six-digit SAME code for your county from the table below.
| County | State | SAME code | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar County | IA | 019031 |
Entire area |
| Clinton County | IA | 019045 |
Entire area |
| Louisa County | IA | 019115 |
Entire area |
| Muscatine County | IA | 019139 |
Entire area |
| Scott County | IA | 019163 |
Entire area |
| Henry County | IL | 017073 |
Entire area |
| Mercer County | IL | 017131 |
Entire area |
| Rock Island County | IL | 017161 |
Entire area |
| Whiteside County | IL | 017195 |
Entire area |
Station details
- Call sign
- WXJ73
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz
- Transmitter
- Quad Cities, IL
- Transmitter site
- Rock Island
- Power
- 1,000 watts
- NWS office
- Quad Cities, IA
- Office address
- 9040 Harrison Street (Davenport Municipal Airport), Davenport, IA, 52806
- Office phone
- 563-386-3976
- Coverage
- 9 counties
- Station page
- weather.gov/nwr
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WXJ73 at a glance
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz
- Transmitter
- Quad Cities, IL
- NWS office
- Quad Cities, IA
- Covers
- 9 counties
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