Weather radio in Alaska

WXJ80: NOAA Weather Radio, Sitka

162.550 MHz · 500 W · On the air

WXJ80 broadcasts NOAA Weather Radio on 162.550 MHz (WX1 on most receivers) from Sitka, with the transmitter at Biorka Island, Alaska, at 500 W. The National Weather Service office in Juneau, AK programs it. It covers 1 county.

The transmitter and its neighbors

WXJ80 (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
WXJ80
Frequency
162.550 MHz (WX1)
Power
500 W
Status
On the air
Station
Sitka
Transmitter site
Biorka Island
State
Alaska
NWS office
Juneau, AK
Location
57.0472, -135.3669

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
SitkaAlaska002220C, 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 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM UTC; held for an hour. Original at weather.gov. Report an outage to NWS at weather.gov/nwr.