KEC43: NOAA Weather Radio, Anchorage

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KEC43 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Anchorage, Alaska, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Anchorage, AK programs it. It covers 3 counties.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC43 (the largest dot) and the transmitters within 100 miles, colored by their status now.

On the air
Degraded
Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign: KEC43
Frequency: 162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power: 300 W
Status: On the air
Station: Anchorage
State: Alaska
NWS office: Anchorage, AK
Location: 61.1570, -149.9874

Counties covered

Program a SAME receiver with the code of your county. Coverage is NWS’s note of the part of a county the signal reaches.

County	State	SAME code	Coverage
Anchorage	Alaska	002020	C, N, S, W
Kenai Peninsula	Alaska	002122	N, W
Matanuska-Susitna	Alaska	002170	C, E

Nearby transmitters

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Sources

Transmitters, status and county coverage from the National Weather Service’s NOAA Weather Radio county coverage listing (data). Public domain. Read September 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.