Weather radio in Alaska

WXJ79: NOAA Weather Radio, Cordova

162.400 MHz · 1,000 W · On the air

WXJ79 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.400 MHz (WX2 on most receivers) from Cordova, with the transmitter at Ski Hill, Alaska, at 1,000 W. The National Weather Service office in Anchorage, AK programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ79 (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
WXJ79
Frequency
162.400 MHz (WX2)
Power
1,000 W
Status
On the air
Station
Cordova
Transmitter site
Ski Hill
State
Alaska
NWS office
Anchorage, AK
Location
60.5499, -145.7496

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
ChugachAlaska002063Whole county

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 6:17 PM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.