Weather radio in Alaska

KEC81: NOAA Weather Radio, Seward

162.550 MHz · 300 W · On the air

KEC81 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Seward, with the transmitter at Spring Creek, Alaska, at 300 W. The National Weather Service office in Anchorage, AK programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KEC81 (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
KEC81
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
300 W
Status
On the air
Station
Seward
Transmitter site
Spring Creek
State
Alaska
NWS office
Anchorage, AK
Location
60.0893, -149.3528

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.

CountyStateSAME codeCoverage
Kenai PeninsulaAlaska002122E

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 6:48 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.