Weather radio in Alaska

KWN30: NOAA Weather Radio, Kotzebue

162.550 MHz · 1,000 W · Degraded

KWN30 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Kotzebue, Alaska, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, AK programs it. It covers 1 county. NWS lists it as degraded now.

The transmitter and its neighbors

KWN30 at its site.

  • On the air
  • Degraded
  • Off the air

The transmitter

Call sign
KWN30
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
1,000 W
Status
Degraded
Station
Kotzebue
State
Alaska
NWS office
Fairbanks, AK
Location
66.8861, -162.6136

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
Northwest ArcticAlaska002188C, S, W

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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 3:12 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.