WXJ26: NOAA Weather Radio, Ketchikan
WXJ26 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Ketchikan, with the transmitter at Point Higgins, Alaska, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Juneau, AK programs it. It covers 1 county.
The transmitter and its neighbors
WXJ26 (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
- WXJ26
- Frequency
- 162.550 MHz (WX1)
- Power
- 500 W
- Status
- On the air
- Station
- Ketchikan
- Transmitter site
- Point Higgins
- State
- Alaska
- NWS office
- Juneau, AK
- Location
- 55.4608, -131.8104
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ketchikan Gateway | Alaska | 002130 | C, N, E, S, W |
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 27, 2026 at 12:52 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.